[January 19, 2026] As history tells us, we are not positive how the American Flag all came about. With this, the 250th Anniversary of our country, and our Radio show very much involved in what I believe will be one of the largest Veteran displays of opened Casket Flags in America over the 2026 Memorial Day weekend. Actually,… Read More »
[December 16, 2025] Most folks in America are unaware that since 2010, there has been a project underway to locate, document, and share the stories of our World War II U.S. Navy submarines. Furthermore, the majority of those unaccounted for, labeled as Missing in Action, are from our Navy. This is what Lost 52 Project is all about.… Read More »
[December 3, 2025] I’ve not yet seen all of the recent production of Ken Burn’s, “The American Revolutionary” series on PBS. So far, my initial reaction to it was positive, but the more I saw of the documentary, the more I saw it for what it was: biased against America’s founding. Being distributed on PBS gives the documentary… Read More »
[December 2, 2025] It only seems like yesterday when I flew into Baghdad aboard a C130 Air Force cargo plane. I had a small team that was to act as the Advanced Party to the 353rd Engineer Group (Construction). In my first book “Our Longest Year in Iraq,” I laid out my thoughts on the Iraq War. Our… Read More »
[November 13, 2025] Occasionally it’s good to take a break from the challenge of the study of leadership. Today I’m providing my personal list of favorite war movies … those that made an impression on me when I saw them. Yes, they’re English movies so the list doesn’t include some great, non-English movies. For some reason these movies… Read More »
[November 11, 2025] Hello General Satterfield, Here we are again celebrating Veterans Day. Sir, this will be my 57th year being home from Vietnam. I guess you can say I am one of the lucky ones. General , even though Veterans Day is a day to remember and thank our living Veterans, it is a day that I… Read More »
[October 27, 2025] I was intrigued by the view of a North Korean defector who watched an American War movie: Saving Private Ryan. Her perspective on “war movies” and the differences how the Hermit Nation addresses war versus how America views it, was startling, and indicative of how Communists view human existence. Hanaya’s takeaway is that we must learn… Read More »
[October 11, 2025] In my first book, “Our Longest Year in Iraq,” I made an effort to show how I developed to a point where I would achieve something important in my life. The discovery was my connection to combat Veterans and how they played an outsized role in my upbringing. ‘The Beginning’ is trying to lay this… Read More »
[October 7, 2025] Ever since the first battle among humans, the best lesson of winning was to have the leader present, front and center. As a kid, I learned while touring Civil War battlefields that great leadership happens by that leader being there. At the most famous battles, the most senior Army Generals were on the battlefield, leading… Read More »
[September 20, 2025] This morning, in the early hours as I prepare for the last day of honoring our Vietnam Veterans, I watched a clip of Dr. Jordan Peterson discussing the virtue of being a monster. I thought to myself, how appropriate his comments were, because that is what our heroes from that war created, virtuous men who… Read More »