Battle of Midway Week, Pearl Harbor: 06 JUN Station HYPO Tour! (Steps down to the Dungeon at Building 1, Pearl Harbor Navy Shipyard. Photo Socotra). Rarely opened to the public, on the sixth of June (D-Day’s 72nd anniversary elsewhere) Station HYPOs hallowed spaces will be open for viewing! Seventy-four years ago, the last air attacks of […]

04 JUN 2016 The commemoration of Battle of Midway Week continues in Pearl Harbor: On the morning of the 4th of June, 1942, the round-the-clock efforts of CDR Joe Rochefort’s code-breakers in The Dungeon in the basement of the 14th Naval District Headquarters in Pearl Harbor paid off. The compelling estimate of Japanese intentions provides […]

Battle of Midway Week: Midway Atoll Murals Unveiling Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor (The Midway Murals illustrate the broad mission sweep of Naval forces in the Pacific (clockwise from top left) with major surface combatants, JFK’s Patrol Torpedo Boat, aircraft carriers, CB construction efforts, Marine amphibious operations and the Silent Service). Battle of Midway Week […]

18 May 2016 Gentle Readers: I got in from Vegas last night and the Time Zone Trainwreck has hit me like a freight. Nice little place they have out there. With great pals and extended family, and the possibility that the Raiders and a hockey team are coming, and where the bars are open 24 […]

Editor’s Note: The Las Vegas Bucket List is about complete, including some outdoor pizza grilling at Mike and Paula’s house last night under the stars. It is back to the grindstone via seat 10F again this afternoon, though on the whole, I think I would rather stay. I won’t dwell on that as I scurry […]

Editor’ Note: Good trip so far. I like the neighborhood here, and my pals have a great extended family who were most welcoming. It has been added to the possibilities list for re-location after we know a little more about the nature of our collective fates in the Fall. The Las Vegas Bucket list thus […]

15 May 2016 Editor’s Note: In Vegas this morning. It is a great time to get warm and dry out after 16 consecutive days of rain in DC, smashing records set all the way back in 1873. Check the pictures of the Rockies I got from Flight Level 32. They are on the FB. Ahhhh. […]

Editor’s Note: Traveling today, early. Communications for the next few could be spottier than Trump’s taxes or Hillary’s emails. There may be some interesting reports from the road. You never can tell. – Vic We arrive at Hotel de Mornay; romance, of course, then bread and cheese (pain et frommage, mon Cher!) in the room […]