Editor’s Note: Do not get this brand of the flu that I am enjoying no end. I even got my shot on time back in October, and it didn’t matter. This strain is virulent, disgusting and really cuts into your social life. – Vic The Hatch Way (Then-LT Bill Hatch. Photo Hatch family). It was […]

Editor’s Note: If I failed to personally express my thoughts for the New Year, let me do so now. Please have a safe and prosperous New Year in 2017! I am happy to be done with 2016- it had all sorts of good and bad news, including deaths of friends and the miracle of birth. […]

It had been a long and confusing week, with five separate proposals to the Government in various states of disarray at the office. I was sick of writing creative fiction about capabilities and desparate for a win that would keep Corporate off our backs for a while. I was a thirsty camper when I glanced […]

I hit the jackpot yesterday at the historic Washington Navy Yard. I got access to a copy of the oral history that Mac did with Art Baker twenty-six years ago. It was the very first one that the Office of Naval Intelligence had conducted, and in six interviews, Art got an excellent blow-by-blow on how […]

(Convair B-36 Peacemaker, 1949. My brother and I stopped at Wright-Patterson AFB to see the one in the Air Force Museum. It is one of the most extraordinary aviation artifacts I have ever seen. Official Air Force picture.) “The Bomb got us all home,” said Mac. “It saved us the hundreds of thousands of casualties, […]

(RADM Dan Gallery’s account of life on the waves through the eyes of a Chief Petty Officer. I loved it as a young teen). I have a couple chunks of the Mac Showers book ready to drop into the manuscript, and was going to take the discretionary time of the inter-holiday week to trot them […]

Editor’s Note: This is a return to part of the Mac Showers saga. It will drop into the back of the book, the small part that deals with Life After Mac. I will be meeting with the Historian of the Navy later this holiday week to gain some insight on the activities that went along […]

(Mr. and Mrs. Claus relax in the luxury of the Willard Hotel’s elegant lobby). Family is far away, and I was not traveling as I had anticipated on Christmas Day. Jon-Without was in a similar position, and we batted around the idea of getting out of our respective caves and catching a breath fo fresh […]

(Gift cards at the Front Page are splendid gifts!) Gentle readers, This Christmas morning my thoughts are thousands of miles away. I have a son who will rise on the Windward Shore of the island of O’ahu, and another who is involved in the intricate mystery of life with his newborne and his wife. I […]