(Senator Joe McCarthy is advised by attorney Roy Cohn during Senate hearings). There is a lot of talk about Russian interference in the US election recently- the cyber hacks that CIA insists were a Russian job and the FBI which has a more cautious view on the ability to attribute the thefts to Moscow. It […]

(Rep. Lucien N. Nedzi, 1969, from Congressional Pictorial Directory.) Mac was just back from the beach on the annual Shower’s family reunion, and I was just returned from the First Congressional District of Michigan, and it was clearly time to get together at Willow and talk about what happened to the Intelligence Community in the […]

Editor’s note: I don’t know if they celebrated Nimitz Day out in Suitland, Maryland, this year. There was a time when it was a truly big deal, for a variety of reasons that will become apparent. Certainly there is reason to consider the institutions of the US Army and Navy on this day, since they […]

As I write, the clock is marking the hours toward the 75th Anniversary of the Air Raid that changed history. The destroyer USS Ward (DD-139) had already engaged a Japanese mini-submarine outside the nets that guarded Pearl Harbor; Japanese carrier pilots were briefing their strike packages and preparing to launch from the decks of resolute […]

03 December, 2016 REBECCA L. “Becky” BURKHALTER, in Annapolis, Maryland, surrounded by family. Becky was born Rebecca Ann Robinson in Pensacola, Florida on August 28, 1937. Her parents were Elvera (Boyette) and Henry Robinson. Becky graduated from high school in Sanford, Florida and went on to the University of Hawaii. While there she met and […]

(Left Coast Guy and I did some exploring when we were back at Pearl Harbor last year. The anonymous door in the middle of the picture holds stairs that lead down to what had been The Dungeon in the war years, and where the analysts of Station Hypo broke the Japanese Codes. Photo Socotra) We […]

05 December 2016 Editor’s Note: Woke this morning at Refuge Farm. Delightful dawn, made me want to stay, and perhaps I will. The story below tells the story of what happened when it was over, and all the boys wanted to go home. It bridges Mac’s tale from what was to what was about to […]

04 December 2016 Editor’s Note: These things float up out of the hard drive. I wasn’t organized enough to compile them as they happened- too much other moving parts of life interacting- so I am scooping them out of the memory pool and dropping them into the manuscript where they appear to best fit. This […]