by Skook | Sep 9, 2016 | Culture, Daily Distraction, Fiction, Global Regions, Vietnam War
In the fall of ’65. my best friends, Frenchy, Knarley and Barbwire Johnny and I, were guiding a group of serious hunters on the Muskwa River for Elk and Grizzly. We had some experienced hunters to guide and this always made the hunt more interesting. These...
by Wordsmith | May 30, 2016 | Anti-military, Military, Military Families, military history, Obituaries, Support the Troops, True Heroes, Vietnam War
Christian Jacobs hugs the headstone of his father U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Jacobs as mother Brittany, wipes away a tear in Arlington National Cemetery A friend recently posted this iconic 2007 photo of Christian Golczynski: His father, Marine Staff...
by Wordsmith | May 2, 2016 | military history, On This Day, This Day in History, True Heroes, Vietnam War
Figured this deserves more attention than just a “Most Wanted” post, even if my own commentary is sparse. He went back for that effing arm…. On this day in 1968, a United States Marine finally allows his wounds to be treated after a 3-day battle in...
by Skook | Sep 23, 2015 | Communism, Culture, Fiction, Freedom, History, Marxism, Military, Vietnam War
Frenchy, Knarley and Barbwire Johnny were guiding hunters on the Muskwa River for Elk and Grizzly. They had some decent guys to guide. The hunters had done a lot of hunting and were not complainers. This was important to guys who often worked in the dark, before the...
by Wordsmith | Sep 14, 2015 | Bush Derangement Syndrome, Hollywood Limousine & Learjet Liberals, movie review, MSM Bias, Vietnam War
Even nigh 7 years out of office and liberals and leftists cannot leave George W. Bush alone. Bush Derangement Syndrome must be an incurable lifetime dis ease. On the heels of 2010’s “Fair Game”, Hollyweird comes out with another progressive’s...
by Wordsmith | Apr 30, 2015 | American Exceptionalism, On This Day, This Day in History, Vietnam War
HuffPo: On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, marking the end of a decades-long conflict that left millions dead. With North Vietnamese troops approaching Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh, the U.S. scrambled to...
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