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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...

D. W. Wilma
May 31, 20204 min read
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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...

D. W. Wilma
Dec 22, 20192 min read
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The Lost Cause
The tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in...
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Aug 16, 20172 min read
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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...
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Apr 2, 20161 min read
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The American Revolution
We recently observed the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, the ban on slavery. Slavery—involuntary servitude, bonded servitude,...
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Feb 1, 20162 min read
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Monuments
The aftermath of the tragedy in Charleston has triggered a lively and not always civil discussion on the action in South Carolina to...
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Jul 15, 20151 min read
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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...
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May 11, 20151 min read
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Bengazi Thing
Congressman Adam Schiff (D., California) has been named by minority leader Pelosi to participate in the most recent inquiry into the...
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May 23, 20141 min read
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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...
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Apr 12, 20141 min read
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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...
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Mar 12, 20142 min read
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Crimea and Czechoslovakia
The crisis in Ukraine over Crimea has launched news producers into warp drive to find analysts, commenters, commentators, talking heads,...
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Mar 1, 20142 min read
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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...
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Jan 3, 20142 min read
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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...
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Dec 22, 20131 min read
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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...
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Dec 15, 20133 min read
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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...
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Dec 14, 20132 min read
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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...
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Mar 27, 20131 min read
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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...
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Mar 24, 20132 min read
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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,...
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Feb 19, 20132 min read
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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...
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Feb 19, 20131 min read
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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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Oct 13, 20122 min read
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