We are every race and every ethnicity ( Read more... )

That's why I don't drink or do drugs. Leave aside laws, religious prohibitions, social stigma and self-respect.

I'm afraid of who is inside me, what is inside me ( Read more... )

When my mother died at 3:00 AM on May 18th 2003, a robin sang outside her hospice room window for 20 minutes. A robin is engraved on her headstone where she is buried. She was small and petite, but loud and melodic in life, just like a robin ( Read more... )

A poem by Alan Seeger.

A man who died young and well.

This was the fragment of poem from the GoW2 trailer, the full poem can be found here.

http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Seeger.html

I have a rendezvous with Death ( Read more... )

You're reading this in English because of American soldiers, sailors (both Navy and Coast Guard), airmen and Marines ( Read more... )

That's my problem with Clancy's writing. Sure, it was iconic and genre-founding, but he didn't take any real chances. Didn't write any true epics.

In many of Tom Clancy's books, too many damn things break in America's direction. Not just the little things, an example being in The Sum of All Fears when the nuke only partially detonates, thereby ( Read more... )

The following is a quote by Sir Charles James Napier, the British Commander-in-Chief in India in the mid-18th Century. The Indians he lived and fought amongst practiced the ancient Hindu rite of suttee, a ritual where widows are thrown alive onto their husband's funeral pyres.

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have ( Read more... )

Hey,

My name is Gaige, and here I am. I've decided to come here to LiveJournal due to the lack of... civilized discourse on MySpace and Facebook. There's too much friction elsewhere, and LiveJournal seems to be a place to more suited to me.