Author: Vic Socotra

The 20th Annual Bill Reddig AMC Meet

Gentle Readers, The Virginia Detachment of the Hoosier AMC Club has tried to keep you in the loop for the annual fall event that means so much to those who roll in the Rambler tradition. As Bill Reddig’s proud kids, we support what these great Americans do to keep a great tradition alive! As part […]

Grandparents on a Navy Cruiser

(VADM Rex Rectanus, Left. Virginia Martin, Middle. Some guy from the Writer’s Section, Right). If you are lucky, you may recall when the grandparents came for a visit in a pleasant old sedan for a happy family weekend. Today’s adventure from the Writer’s Section features something along those lines, if those grandparents were actually just […]

Introduction to an Incorrect World

(The image above was taken in May of 1980 from an Army tour bus in the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the De-Militarized Zone just south of the armistice line between the ROK and North Korea. The young officer standing to attention at the approach to what was known as the “Bridge of No Return.” […]

Life & Island Times: Unbollweevilable Times

Author’s Note: Like 2016 and 2020, we got ourselves an Empire infestation in 2022. -Marlow Unbollweevilable Times Boll weevils told Georgia farmers “You better treat us right We’ll eat up all of your cotton Sleep in your grain rail tonight” Boll weevils told Georgia farmers “You don’t need no Ford machine We’ll eat up all […]

Good Afternoon, Car People! This just in from Hal Showers about the show tomorrow! He says: “Hard to believe that 24 hours from now Marie Harrington will be kindly reminding me how to put up a tent and how to run an extension cord, but the 20th Bill Reddig AMC Show is tomorrow! Get your […]

Steel Mobile Homes

This is an unusual morning. It started with a note from one of the Old Salts about submarines.He had been to an exhibit called “A View From the Periscope.” It was a collection of twenty images depciting life around the Bubbleheads. None of us at the Writer’s Section except DeMille were bubbleheads, and our limited […]

Arrias and His Muse:  Autumn

15 September 2022 Author’s Note: Watching the Hummingbirds – they must be leaving soon, then my Muse showed up… – Arrias Cool and crisp, crystalline clear, fall arrives, Ignoring calendars, hummingbirds’ last Probes for nectar ere their journey vast, But summer lingers, And still the roses thrive. Several trees start to drop their cloaks, Reds […]

The Seven Day Forecast

The Lady In Red is the name Splash assigned to the skilled meteorologist on the flat screen who appears each afternoon. She appears in the bundle of jumbled information each afternoon and gives us a taste of what to expect from the skies above in the week ahead. She claimed something extraordinary for this summer […]

Public, Podcast, Personal and Private

The Writer’s Section was agog at the Fire Pit this morning. Well, that is a bit of a euphemism, since we tend to be “gog” most mornings, at least until the Chock Full O’ Nuts kicks in. But the crux of the matter was the detention of one of those media figures who we find […]

A Couple Heroes You May Not Know

There are a couple pieces contained in this brief inadequate account that have been worth telling for many years. They are long overdue, since they both retain some minor mysteries. Those stories were sheltered in other labor, deferred for the telling of other tales of other mysteries. The first is a tip of the Navy […]