D. J. Burkett and Glenna Whitely wrote a very well respected book titled “Stolen Valor” about people who have never served in the military and people who hav...

Like many combat vets returning from Vietnam, my homecoming was rather uneventful. I flew from Seattle to Chicago and then from Chicago to Oshkosh. At no tim...

The month of October has been designated as Agent Orange month so I can’t let this month pass without commenting on it. I’m no scientist, so it is not my int...

Eight years ago, several of my siblings and I purchased a Legacy Stone at the Veteran's Memorial "The Highground" in Neillsville, WI to honor my uncle Don Mc...

On March 26, 1982, I was living in Silver Spring, MD and working for the Federal Government. The day before, I noticed while reading the Washington Post on m...

The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and because we suffered so many casualties a need existed to create national cemeteries in communitie...

Before I went into the Army, I grew up in a rural neighborhood in Oshkosh, WI with lots of other kids. It was the 1960’s and many of us were children of Worl...

When I was in Vietnam with the 1/6 198th Light Infantry Brigade, one of my platoon mates was a guy named Hector Gomez. He was from Texas and he was a down to...

When I was assigned to an infantry company in February 1968 it was Charlie Company 1/6th 198th infantry and we patrolled areas west of Chu Lai. Typically, we...

I arrived in Vietnam in February 1968 and after a few day stay in the country club of Vietnam (Cam Rahn Bay), where I thought I was to spend the entire year...

Jody was a mythical figure allegedly derived from another mythical character an African-American named Joe D. Grinder. Joe D. Grinder, later shortened to Jo...

In my introductory post, I mentioned the reason I turned to songwriting about veteran related issues and it was primarily to deal with the lingering feelings...