Once upon a time, when I was in college there was this freshman girl, really cute, bubbly, smiling, attractive. She had a personality that drew people to her. Everyone seemed to like her. One Saturday night at a party I had opportunity to talk to her, just the two of us. Boy howdy, I thought, I was one lucky country… Read more: The Cute College Girl – A Fairy Tale

It is Memorial Day Again. Last Memorial Day I was on a boat in Charleston Harbor headed to Fort Sumter for a much-too-short visit. But today I saw a TV blurb about the delayed Indy 500, something I have not thought about for many years. That took me back 65 years to 1959. Memorial Day was “Decoration Day” back then,… Read more: Critical “Race” Theory

Two battles were fought at Manassas. The first in July, 1861, and the second thirteen months later in August of 1862. I spent three days at Bull Run, walking the battlefields, researching the events and talking with park rangers and volunteers. Manassas is about the best curated of all the battlefields I visited. The National Park Service is trying to… Read more: Battles at Bull Run