Memorial Day honors those who have fallen in war. Something those who have never served in combat may not know, or realize, is many who have physically survived the horrors of warfare and returned home, may have, in a harrowing and unimaginable way, experienced another, and for some, worse type of death. Each Memorial Day Weekend, I find a body of water, this year will be the Pacific Ocean, where I somberly reflect back to my days of active duty. It was a time that I not only

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I wrote this more than a decade ago for the Sunday Dispatch, and thought I would share today... I hope you enjoy. Happy Thanksgiving......

On Veterans Day I will go to a body of water and take most of the morning thinking about my brothers and sisters in arms. I will stare...

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According to Hemingway, "The world breaks everyone." It only takes a quick perusal of daily headlines to know, all those years ago, he...