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Navy Unveils New Uniforms
The Navy has announced the results of its "Task Force: Uniform", an ongoing effort to modernize and simplify the Navy's look. Upcoming changes include catching up the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force by designing its very own style of Battle Dress Uniform, or BDUs. ("Cammies" for you rednecks out there.) The new BDUs--sort of a grey-blue color ( Read more... ) -
So Many Books, So Little Time...
One of my ongoing projects for the last couple years has been collecting classic books. Well, okay, that's more of an obsession, and started about twenty years ago; but what I'm talking about specifically is children's classics: Peter Pan, The Chronicles of Narnia, Winnie-the-Pooh, Just-So Stories, and so on. Stories I can read to my kids someday ( Read more... ) -
Quarter-Life Crisis
So after reformatting my hard drive and trying to get things just how I want them, I took a gander at my old LiveJournal page and decided it needed a bit of life infused into it. That or a facelift, I'm not particular.
And it turns out I've been on this Roman kick lately... (Some of you are probably asking if this is the same Roman kick I got on ( Read more... ) -
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As I sit here and watch my neighbors set off fireworks from their back porch, hearing the laughter and squeals of joy from their kids, I am... content.
I used to get uptight about the Fourth; it's one of those holidays I've never really observed, since most of the time I was away from home--at VMI for a summer session, in Lisbon, even somewhere out ( Read more... ) -
If You've Ever Wondered but Were Afraid to Ask...
I found this floating around on the 'Net (no pun intended). It's the single best description of submarine life I've yet found, and hopefully will serve to answer most basic questions.
Oh--and before you get offended, remember that it's (almost) all tongue-in-cheek. (I'll let you decide for yourselves what parts aren't. ;)
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I always have the most cheerful discourses with myself on my birthdays ( Read more... ) -
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I'm post-dating this one because I really did write it a few days ago, I just didn't have computer access. Normally I keep stuff like this to myself, but... I dunno. I guess I'm in a sharing mood tonight.
My VMI saga is at an end; that chapter of my life is closed. The last vestiges of character, personality, and memory that I have enjoyed are ( Read more... ) -
Churchill the Prophet
It is often said that history moves in cycles; to those of you who are skeptical, I invite your attention to the following excerpted transcript of a speech delivered in Parliament on 16 November 1934 by Winston Churchill. It is aptly titled "The Causes of War."
"What shall we do?
"Many people think that the best way to escape war is to dwell upon ( Read more... )
