Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of […]

To all those who served, anywhere, any time. ~Joe

  It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire                                             Introduction   Last month’s article featuring a compilation of essays and memoirs of the Vietnam War was hugely popular, having been viewed by […]

  In war, everybody loses. Participants sacrifice their lives, limbs and sanity, perpetrators their morality. ~Joe                                              Introduction   This week’s story is a collection of memoirs and writings from a group of people who were involved in or affected by the Vietnam War, in some fashion. Many of the people are my […]

    We are each given an infinitesimal chance at the universe; what will we do with that chance? ~Joe                      The Sixties are forever on our mind           We hear much about the cataclysmic events of the sixties, hardly a day […]

    President Johnson did not want the war to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the south alone. ~William Westmoreland                                    Recruited Allies Many American GI’s who served in Vietnam had contact of […]

Three Wars, the final book of The Kansas NCO trilogy has been released. It is now available on Kindle and will soon be available in paperback.

  I recently had the privilege of attending the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing Association reunion in Tucson, Arizona. The 12th Tactical Fighter Wing (12th TFW) was the unit I served under during my tour of duty in Vietnam from January of 1970 to January of 1971. The reunion was managed very nicely, was well attended […]

  The third book in The Kansas NCO trilogy will be out within the next few months.   Three Wars is a prequel to the first two books, The Kansas NCO and Back To The World. The prologue opens up with our beloved characters Crucianelli, Redmond and Montrell back in Vietnam.   The three, outside […]

                      Introduction   World War II was the largest military engagement in the history of man. Some sixty million people or three percent of the world population perished in the calamity, with many more millions wounded and maimed. During that time, sixteen million U.S. citizens […]