Category Archives: Values

VJ Day Remembered

By | August 18, 2025

[August 18, 2025]  I’m disappointed that I missed the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II; Victory over Japan, VJ Day.  More fanfare in the media was given to how bad the New York Yankees baseball team is this season, and I failed to pay sufficient attention.  Looking at articles written, which I missed, more attention… Read More »

Little Things Matter

By | August 14, 2025

[August 14, 2025]  An incident occurred during a military training exercise early in my career that taught me an important lesson – little things matter.  After relocating my platoon to a new defensive position, I set our machine gun foxhole in what I thought was an okay spot.  My commander ordered me to change it, and later, during… Read More »

Fatherhood

By | August 9, 2025

[August 9, 2025]  Fatherhood is a glorious, fast-paced, purifying journey into self-realization that makes men out of men and makes a man see his moral worth.  In those days when sleep is lost, the unending patter of little feet on the floor, and the requirement to be the protector of the family, a man learns his true colors. … Read More »

Know the Enemy

By | July 29, 2025

[July 29, 2025]  Never underestimate your enemy.  The “enemy” symbolically refers to people opposed to you, those with competing ideas, desires, and missions.  They could be an opposing army, a terrorist group, a strongman dictator who wants to destroy the world, or the metaphysical Devil.  Know your enemy. The enemy can be as tiny as a drunk friend… Read More »