Russ Emerson | November 11, 2003
I’m thinking back to my childhood, in the ’60s. Even as young as I was, I knew it wasn’t a time when being a soldier was something most people bragged about. Yet in the narthex of our church were displayed portrait photos of the young men of our congregation who had gone off to the […]
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Russ Emerson | November 9, 2003
Long ago, Acidman had a bad experience with gin. Now, he’s on speaking terms with it, at least. Good. In 1988, I had just been posted to Korea, and our “op-tempo” was pretty high. From April until September of that year, our routine was to spend 3 or 4 weeks in the field, up near […]
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