I love football. I don’t celebrate New Year’s Jan. 1, I celebrate Aug. 15 or whatever August date the NFL..
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Two weeks ago, I was privileged to attend the “change of command” ceremony, whereby the command of all Pacific submarines,..
As a kid I saw Gary Cooper in the movie Sergeant York, about the Tennessee sharpshooter of WWI fame. A..
The worst thing a Navy carrier pilot can do is to land short of the landing area on the flight..
Over the past 20-plus years I have had several heart attacks, the first being literally induced by an overly determined..
“This is the most transparent administration in history.” -Barack Obama; White House “Fireside Hangout” hosted online by Google, Feb. 13,..
En route to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., the eight big, shiny buses (truly the limousines of tour..
Driving onto Palm Circle at Fort Shafter is like driving through a time warp. Suddenly you are back in Hawaii’s..
According to Wikipedia, the first recorded terrorist attack on U.S. soil was in 1920, when several pounds of dynamite were..
In 1964, I was one of the “Red Hot” young instructor pilots at the Vigilante training squadron in Central Florida...
Of all the new acronyms and abbreviations we use now in everyday communication by email, texting or twittering, like LOL..
Like so many of you, I watched on TV the introduction of the new pope, Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio,..
In their jointly written Wall Street Journal opinion column (Feb. 26, 2013), Sens. Corker (R-Tenn.) and Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking members..
I just don’t get it! President Obama has successfully expanded the Bush drone offensive against al-Qaida and its ilk, and..
Next Tuesday (Feb. 12) will mark a supremely happy occasion for me – the 40th anniversary of my release to..
Like many Oahu residents, I have visited the USS Missouri several times. And I never tire of seeing the big..
We just have enjoyed another New Year’s Eve show of “banned” fireworks, although here in maverick Aiea Heights, things haven’t..
OK, call it peace on Earth, goodwill toward men, or whatever … but I have to say the president’s words..
In the Nov. 14, 2012, edition of MidWeek, my fellow columnist Larry Price commented on the recent study by the..
INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole. I thank whatever gods..