Nah. I agree with them as IT issues aren’t in our hands. Stuff happens. These are incredible young men and women. I’d go back to sea with any of them. Every day they restore my faith in the future.
My students on the due day of a paper: - my computer crashed - Word won’t save it right - the power went out and I lost my whole paper My inner 19 year old self remembering:
The WarOnTheRocks Holiday Staff Reading list is out. My two choices this year: "Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy" and The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History warontherocks.com/2023/12/the-...
It’s that week again. And so I’m re-upping an interview on our Preble Hall naval history pod how Class of 1992 mids stole the four Army mules in 1991 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Thanks to @jonsrennie for having me on his Deep Leadership podcast to discuss Admiral Rickover and the book #RickoverUncensoredyoutu.be/O_1CYrXbJ18?...
Back in the 70s we were given chemistry sets as Christmas gifts. I’m surprised we didn’t burn down houses with some of the materials.
Today’s music to start my naval history class: Louis Armstrong’s version of La Vie en Rose The education continues… youtu.be/8IJzYAda1wA?...
Prepping my notes for the Vietnam War module of my history class and remembering some interviews I conducted with Rene Defourneaux and Henry Prunier, who were then the last two surviving members of the OSS DEER team into Indochina in 1945. Both incredible gentlemen.
- HR Pufnstuf - The Bugaloos - Sigmund and the Sea Monsters - Land of the Lost - Far Out Space Nuts (“I said lunch, not launch!) He produced tripping Saturday mornings “Marty Krofft, Who Created Fantastical TV Shows With Brother, Dies at 86” www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/o...
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A writer's Thanksgiving: Thanks to one of my grad-school mentors who advised me that I could pursue both non-fiction and fiction. With "Rickover Uncensored" and "The Philippine Pact" out this year, it's due to her encouragement and support 30 years ago.
