by Admin | May 27, 2017 | Personal Stories
As Memorial Day approaches, friends, acquaintances and perfect strangers have thanked me for serving in the military. Just today my wife and I went to an outlet mall, and when I bought some shoes with my military credit card, a register clerk thanked me for my...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Personal Stories
On November 24, 1967, I was at Pensacola, FL. I had checked in at the Marine Corps Training Command on November 20th and had been assigned to go through Ground School at Mainside. I had been with a bunch of Marine Aviation Students running the sea course, when a...
by Admin | Jul 13, 2016 | Personal Stories
I want to explain… Let’s start again. Make that: “I want to plead guilty” to the Fear of Large Bodies of Water. Now I know that sounds crazy, but when you have to make carrier landings out in the Gulf of Mexico about 25 miles from shore, fear of water can...
by Admin | Mar 16, 2016 | Combat Missions
The first time I really understood there was a Higher Power, and how we are linked, was in Viet Nam. I was a co-pilot in a Marine CH-46 Helicopter spiraling down to pick up a Marine medevac in an obscure valley south of Da Nang. The helicopter came under fire and...
