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Memorial Day Post

Posted on May 27, 2024May 27, 2024 by Paul Woodford

My grandfathers came home from the Great War. My father and his brothers all survived World War Two. I made it through the Cold War in one piece. All three generations of us knew plenty of comrades who didn’t, and we honor them today. This is a post I wrote on May 29, 2011, with […]

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Posted in History, Military, Personal, War3 Comments on Memorial Day Post

Your Papers, Please

Posted on January 26, 2024January 26, 2024 by Paul Woodford

Never say Paul’s Thing isn’t full of life hacks. Who loves ya, baby? This guy!

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Today in History

Posted on December 2, 2023December 3, 2023 by Paul Woodford

And here we are … still married, still in love, still wondering what will come next.

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Glory Days

Posted on November 4, 2023November 4, 2023 by Paul Woodford

Oh, how I wish now we’d taken more photos back in those glorious days! Why couldn’t they have invented camera phones sooner?

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Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXVI

Posted on October 11, 2023March 16, 2024 by Paul Woodford

Photoblog of a visit to Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona

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Posted in Air-Minded, Flying, History, Local Color, PhotobloggingTagged AirMuseum, PASM, PimaAir&Space3 Comments on Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXVI

22 YEARS LATER

Posted on September 11, 2023May 29, 2025 by Paul Woodford

Twenty-two years on, one scar’s still tender to the touch: the failure of our intelligence agencies and leadership to prevent an attack anyone could have seen coming (and many did, including me).

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Posted in Consumerism, History, Personal, Social Media, Terrorism, War, WordsTagged BigSeikoLittleDick, BojinkaPlot, BTVS, Metaplasmus, NineEleven, TimeHealsMostly2 Comments on 22 YEARS LATER

Sunday Bag o’ Dyslexic Orange Wreckage

Posted on August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 by Paul Woodford

My dyslexia is not the normal kind.

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Posted in Flying, History, Military, Personal, The Internets, WordsTagged AlaskaFlyingMemories, BushPilots, HistorialDyslexia, InternationalOrange, LiveInMiddleAgedDaughterUpdate3 Comments on Sunday Bag o’ Dyslexic Orange Wreckage

I Am Become … Oh, Shut Up Already (Updated)

Posted on August 13, 2023August 13, 2023 by Paul Woodford

Bitch all you want about Boomers, we do try to stay up with the times.

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