Veterans Day 2025
For Veterans Day 2025, I’m updating and recycling a post from 2017.
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
You really never leave
For Veterans Day 2025, I’m updating and recycling a post from 2017.
My memory may be faulty, but wasn’t Dick Cheney a decent enough guy before he went to work as George W. Bush’s VP in 2001?
I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with Robert Hoeting, a Dutch friend who follows my blog. He’s starting a podcast featuring pilot interviews and our talk is the first installment: the subject being my experiences in the U.S. Air Force and flying the F-15 Eagle. We covered a bit of my personal history as well, stories I haven’t shared with anyone in ages.
I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with a Dutch friend who follows my blog, Robert Hoeting.
“Well, that was predictable.”
There. Now you know why Air Force fighters have tail hooks.
At the rate I’m going here, pretty soon I’ll be saying jet fuel doesn’t melt steel.
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