Bob Snyder
Bob Snyder was my best friend in high school. We met as members of the McClellan Cadet Squadron, Civil Air Patrol in Sacramento. We both...
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Serendipity
The origin of this book came in the early 1990s in my family history research. I stumbled across a query in an old journal mentioning my...
The Lost Cause
The tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in...
My First Podcast
I was honored to be interviewed on the Writers Groupie podcast. I moved my desk around so that my bookcase was in the background and I...
The American Revolution
We recently observed the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, the ban on slavery. Slavery—involuntary servitude, bonded servitude,...
Monuments
The aftermath of the tragedy in Charleston has triggered a lively and not always civil discussion on the action in South Carolina to...
West Point and Cadet Benjamin O. Davis
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has named a barracks after General Benjamin O. Davis, ’32, the second African American to...
Bengazi Thing
Congressman Adam Schiff (D., California) has been named by minority leader Pelosi to participate in the most recent inquiry into the...
Storm in the Desert
I note with some concern a series of stories about the Nevada rancher locked in a struggle with the U.S. Government over his payments for...
Disappeared
The four-engine plane carried 15 persons, nine crew and six passengers and nary a trace was ever found. One passenger, a Chinese-American...
Crimea and Czechoslovakia
The crisis in Ukraine over Crimea has launched news producers into warp drive to find analysts, commenters, commentators, talking heads,...
What are you listening to?
As posted here before, I have begun to explore audio books in addition to hard copy books and e-books. In the past month or two I have...
Holiday Tradition
As a youngster one of the rituals exercised by my mother was, “David, would you go find some chairs please?” I then had to go about the...
What are you reading? Hearing?
I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...
The Mill
I really need to get better at blogging. That’s a good New Year’s resolution, but I’ve never done New Year’s resolutions. My newest...
My video
In 1963, I heard a single by the surf rock band, the Marketts, called “Out of Limits”. I like the fast paced, heavy bass of the music and...
California
I am posting this from the lovely California coast south of San Francisco. I grew up in California, moved away at age 18, came back at...
A funny thing happened to me on my way to the forum
One thing I like to do is participate in online forums (fora?). These are the discussion groups. Back in the early days of the Internet,...
What are you reading? Steve Jobs
I am reading the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which I recommend from a number of viewpoints. First, it’s well researched...
Podcasts
Yes, an entire year since the last post. Not that I haven’t had anything to write, I just haven’t written it here. Here’s hoping I do...
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