Paratrooper: My Life with the 101st Airborne Division
Category: Books
New book just published and available at Amazon (Prime) and Barnes & Noble. The front cover is attached.
Reserved Veterans Parking
Category: Personal Experiences
Did you know you can create Reserved Veterans Parking spaces near you.
Pennsylvania Post 790 shows support for member in Afghanistan
Category: Personal Experiences
Several Pennsylvania American Legion Post 790, Smithton, show their support for deployed Post member serving in Afghanistan.
Don't Finish Third - A Cold War Story
Category: Books
There once was an airman from Philly Who was sent to a place rather chilly On an island he'd stay and copy away To ditties that gave him the willies.
21 Guns
Category: Poetry
Recently, MSG(R) Dean E Powell of Hickory, NC passed away. He served more than 30 years in the North Carolina National Guard and retired active duty in 2002. Upon watching the flag ceremony and the 21 gun salute, Corey Powell (grandson) was inspired to write this poem reflecting his feelings about the 21 gun salute.
An Airman's Journey From 1947 Enlistment through 1972: Always A New Adventure
Category: Books
Truly "a life well lived".
iGuerilla
Category: Books
His modern tools give him a destructive capacity that rivals many states. Internet media exploitation gives him global access to the disaffected and asocial. His religious motives are non-negotiable and his license to kill is sanctioned by Allah.
The Things I Carried
Category: Poetry
Excerpt from "Blue Devils in Vietnam", an account of one small western New York high school's contribution to the Vietnam war.
The Last Butterfly
Category: Poetry
An allegorical account of the 911 Disaster.
AFN Sundays on Okinawa
Category: Poetry
Dear Sir/Madam: Years after service in the U.S. Navy I was once again “stationed” overseas as a civilian contractor. I ran a masters level Counseling program affiliated with Bowie State University (BSU) through the larger University of Maryland University College (UMUC) undergraduate program on military bases around the world. I was teaching and working on Okinawa, mostly at Foster Marine Corps Base, but routinely at all the Bases and Camps on island. Each Sunday Armed Forces Network (AFN) television would announce the servicemen lost that previous week. This was during the height of the Middle Eastern/Iraq/Afghanistan fighting, 2005-2009. During this roll call everyone in the room would fall silent and scrutinize the faces, so many of my Marine students and families were known to us. The enclosed poem captures the mood in our off-base apartment when the roll was called and my wife was still out of the room preparing for church service. Later I gave her the full details but only the numbers before service. On a Memorial Day five years later that memory returned to me and demanded to be acknowledged publicly. The result was the poem accompanying this letter which burst into this world last year. I request you publish it in the American Legion for a larger audience.