Author: Vic Socotra

Who Gets the Truck?

The Writer’s Section was edgy this morning. “Is it over yet? Can we get back to something pastoral and pleasant? It is the height of a mostly lovely summer, the warmth and vitality of the Piedmont summer is flowing all around us. We have identified native eagles that fly above these sweet green pastures. We […]

Who To Salute?

If you have not been part of the planning process on what is called a “Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)” you have missed a lot of fun. A pal summed it up nicely in our own little committee of Vets this morning in the first flurry of notes. “We have all planned, and most of us […]

Arrias: Kabul- What Might We Learn

The US Army did not win the war in Europe in 1945. Leaving aside any argument about what the US and the British and others did versus what the Russian Army did, the two tasks given to the US Army were somewhat more limited in scope: Marshall tasked the Army to “Enter the Continent of […]

Peacemakers

(At left in the above Air Force image, the workhorse of the Pacific War, the B-29, is posed with the B-36 Convair Peacemaker just after the establishment of the United States Air Force in 1948). I walked with some determination from the bunkhouse down to the Loading Dock at the farm to grab a Marlboro […]