THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Seems like only yesterday…
Actually it was at noon on June 3, 1968, which is roughly 15,147 yesterdays. The magic day and time I graduated from the Benning School for Boys.
Sounds like a reform school for “troubled” youth. In a way, it was. Considering that it was a one-way track that led straight to the infantry [...]

This was somewhere in the foothills of the Annamese Cordillera southwest of Da Nang, late August or September. When I was using lace-up zippers in my boots but before, it seems to be, I started adding my dog tags to them for surer body identification. Note the bipod on the M-14 at left.

These are the men of 60th Company, OC 504-68, who were killed in Vietnam. We graduates of that 1968 class of Infantry Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, commemorate them each Memorial Day weekend.
One graduate:  1LT Jacob Lee Kinser.
Two Tactical Officers:  CPT Reese Michael Patrick and 1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender.
Four drop-outs:  CPL Sherry Joe [...]

This one is a politician. The attorney general of Connecticut, no less. And a Democrat, of course. No surprise, either way. They always seem to be politicians (when they’re not academics, so many of whom dodged the draft in the 60s and 70s). What gripes me about them is they lie about us and their [...]

“My friend has now witnessed first-hand how the game is played. Neither party monopolizes greed, corruption or cynicism. Both exist to entrench their players into safe seats at the taxpayer trough.
“America is no longer a democracy. It’s a corporacracy. Businesses, banks, unions and other special interests call the tune, and the White [...]

My indie short-story collection, Leaving the Alamo, Texas Stories After Vietnam, is now on Smashwords in multiple ebook formats, such as Stanza and Sony, at $2.95. Meanwhile, I’m shifting the paperback version from POD distributor Lulu to CreateSpace where it is suffering birthing pains at the moment. The print shift should mean more sales and [...]

Full military honors (and then some) for the funeral and memorial service for the Vietnam veteran–who was murdered by a suicide terrorist while on the job.

Mr. Hunter, 68, a retired Army careerist, Vietnam veteran and IRS manager, is presumed to have been killed in the suicide terrorism incident in Northwest Austin Thursday.
UPDATE:  More from Hunter’s family, both related and friends. And this.

Can’t say I’d mind seeing D.C. buried by a blizzard for a while, so long as Veeshir has a full pantry and keeps his power. Serves the home of hot air right. Can you say Cap & Trade?
I worry more about Mr. B.’s godfather, Richard Torovsky, at the Reveille Vineyards in the rural Shenandoah. Been [...]

Speaking of DC-3s (see below), it seems the largest gathering of them (about 53 are expected) will be flying into Oshkosh, WI, this summer to celebrate the silver bird’s 75th anniversary. All the recent snow up there should have melted by then.