Copyright protected, all rights reserved © Joe Campolo Jr You are welcome to share Joe’s quotes, please credit him as the author if you do. Thank you (My blathering pays the bills) And I ain’t taking this stuff […]
Copyright protected, all rights reserved © Joe Campolo Jr You are welcome to share Joe’s quotes, please credit him as the author when you do. Willy Areas called “No Man’s Land” […]
With Christmas tips in my pocket, I felt like Rockefeller. ~Joe Growing up in Kenosha, Wisconsin back in the fifties and sixties, many of us boys (and a few girls) had a paper route by the time we were eleven or twelve years old. Our allowances pretty much expired by that age, […]
Introduction Today’s article is written by Tom Keating. Tom is a fellow Vietnam War veteran and author. Tom writes stories based on his experiences while serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1969. Holidays were a special time for GI’s […]
As Covid-19 menaces our society, the promise of a vaccine provides a measure of hope. And with that vaccine comes more controversy. Some people are questioning whether the vaccine will be effective, some are questioning who should get vaccinated first, and yet others are questioning whether they should get vaccinated at all. Here […]
Places of intrigue drew us in, like bees to honey. ~Joe From December of 1968 to December of 1969 I was stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. The sprawling airbase was about fifteen miles from the town of Grand Forks and was primarily a SAC (Strategic Air Command) […]
Most of the characters in my books are based upon real people, and the character known as Arnold Redmond, (Red) is no exception. Red’s inspiration was Jim Northrup, a Native American of the Ojibwa tribe. Jim was also a United States Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran, a fellow author, speaker and poet. Sadly, Jim […]
Introduction Today’s article is written by Stephen Ordway. Stephen is a fellow Vietnam War Veteran and a former Green Beret. This is the second article Stephan has provided for our blog. In this article Steve reflects on a life of struggles and […]
Those Men and Women who dedicate their life to our nation’s service. In each branch of the military, those individuals known as lifers are what I consider to be the straw that “makes it all happen”. The group of commissioned and non-commissioned officers who […]
Film producer Spike Lee has jumped into the Vietnam War genre with his film Da Five Bloods, now featured on Netflix. I was asked to share my thoughts on the work, so keeping in mind I am far from unbiased or a professional film […]