When the Office of Naval Intelligence was established in 1882 as America’s first continuously operating intelligence service, it was Lt. Theodorus B. M. Mason’s basic concept that “naval attaches had to be assigned to U.S. embassies and legations in the naval and maritime countries throughout the world, and that ONI would be the office to […]

Editor’s note: First decent night’s sleep since the road trip started last week and I feel almost human. Off to the farm and the first cut on the pastures of the season later today! Now, back to the thrilling days when I was a callow young LCDR and under the misapprehension that everything made sense, […]

Editor’s Note: I am so totally alienated from the political follies abroad in the land that I was almost successfully drawn into the fray this morning. I wavered all day about it- I was quite agitated- and decided to keep all that emotion bottled up. We have had such a marvelous time talking to people […]

I made it back to town with minimal delay from the outskirts of Pittsburgh just after the noon hour passed. It was a glorious day, part of the same weather system Jinny had directed for her interment. I was listening to the audio version of this month’s Book Group selection, a strange novel set in […]

So, yesterday, my fingers flew over the keyboard, trying to recount the wonders of the Rosie Road-Trip at the Holiday Inn Express north of Columbus, OH. The whole Rosie delivery saga still had me energized- jazzed, in fact- and damn the expense. I had to be in Ohio anyway. I checked the Google Earth algorithm […]

The rain started spattering against the side of the Kokomo Holiday Inn Express around three AM. My brother was snoring in the bed next to me, and suddenly awake, I began to think beyond the end of the mission, when the Pepto-Bismo-colored flanks of the classic Rambler Station Wagon would take up her position in […]

The blizzard swept from the north and east. I wandered down to the lobby to get one of the larger cups they have for the house-blend coffee and looked out past the registration desk and saw the white stuff blowing sideways. We looked at Doppler radar, and the immensity of the front passing mostly to […]

We used to call at Roosie Roads, Puerto Rico, and could not resist the title. Sorry. We had some fun there, before he venerable old Spanish-American War vintage base was shuttered, and the island of Vieques was bombed for the last time. But it was Rosie’s Roads yesterday. We poured some raw gas down the […]

Well, I thought we closed out the memories of the old days in the P.I. and Japan, as related by Virginia Ann Wheeler Martin yesterday. She was a dear friend, and we will all miss her enormously. If you happen to be in the neighborhood of Seville, OH, on Tuesday, April 12, at 2:00 pm, […]