Retirement

| February 6, 2006

When I was a somewhat younger man — pretty much still a kid, really — I decided on a military career. There was no single reason for that decision; rather, it was the product of the cumulative influences on my life up to that point. That my grandfather had been a soldier played no small […]

Stand, Men of the West

| February 3, 2006

[Updates below.] I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of […]