Showing posts with label military customs and courtesies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military customs and courtesies. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Thoughts on "Soldier’s Heart"

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From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its d...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet

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One of her cadets, now an officer, wrote to his former professor about his experience in the active military preparing for his combat assig...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

VETERANS DAY 2018

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“Why My Brick” by Michael E. Marotta on behalf of SFC Edward M. Marotta  I was drafted. They called it the peacetime Army, but the K...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

On Saluting the Flag

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When I leave home for drill, I am in uniform. I salute the flag when I step outdoors to load my vehicle; and I salute it again before I get...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

A Critic Meets the Military

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Write about what you know. Every student of journalism, fiction, or poetry hears that from our teachers. Carol Burke was already a professor...
Friday, April 6, 2018

A Few Good Men: A Few Deep Flaws

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Nominated for both an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award ("Oscar") and a Hollywood Foreign Press Association (“Gol...
Monday, April 2, 2018

JAG: 10 Seasons of Military Bearing

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Last week, Laurel and I viewed the final episode of the final season of the television series JAG . It took us about a year to work through...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

From Joint Force to Unified Command

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No one asked me, but I believe that eventually the armed forces of the United States will become a single entity. Different services from t...
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