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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Dec 22, 20192 min read
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...
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Aug 16, 20172 min read
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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Apr 2, 20161 min read
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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Feb 1, 20162 min read
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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Jul 15, 20151 min read
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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May 11, 20151 min read
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 23, 20141 min read
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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Apr 12, 20141 min read
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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Mar 12, 20142 min read
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 1, 20142 min read
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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Jan 3, 20142 min read
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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Dec 22, 20131 min read
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 15, 20133 min read
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 14, 20132 min read
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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Mar 27, 20131 min read
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 24, 20132 min read
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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Feb 19, 20132 min read
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, 20131 min read
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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Oct 13, 20122 min read
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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