I was on a mission from God. Or somebody after The Blonde telephoned me from the Lake. I had called Jon-Without and Heather to see if they wanted to join me for a cross-country adventure to find the Original Willow Bar, but Heather explained that she was trapped at a wedding in Cape May with […]

(The Blonde took this shot yesterday at a restaurant called “the Cove” at Lake Anna. I am headed there now). OK- time to take a deep breath. We got the boys back from their cruise, celebrated the heroes of the Battle of Midway on the anniversary of the first day of that fight, and am […]

As you know, I did a series of articles on the commemorative events scheduled for the Battle of Midway Week, 04-07 June. Having written them was almost as good as having actually done them, so I sort of forgot about them. It is appropriate that am writing now 74 years from the exact time the […]

02 June 2016 Editor’s Note: Every Fly Off is the same, and all are different. My fighter buddy Bronco sent me this one, from his time as an F/A-18 Hornet Skipper, which sums it up nicely: “Ah, Channel Fever. I remember it so well. I know you might discuss fly-off next, so here’s my story […]

Editor’s Note: Bear with me. We will get everyone home tomorrow- well, maybe… Cruise Boxes (Navy Cruise Boxes: an open and shut case.) 08 APR 1990: The realization that things are almost over fir this cruise suddenly struck home with reality today. Yesterday, we were trapped in a time dimension in which there was no […]

31 May 2016 Editor’s Note: Yeah I know. I hate going back to work the day after a long weekend. The pile of stuff that needs to be done….oh well. That included feeding some old papers through the scanner to retrieve the end-bits of that story about the Med Cruise that spanned the end of […]