Thirty-nine Years

Thirty-nine years ago today, we were married. R- was in the Army, about to head for 'Nam. I was in the Marines, stationed at HQMC. We honeymooned in Texas, mostly camping (including in Big Bend and the Davis Mountains) and then were separated for a year by half the planet and a war. After that, we both got additional degrees (back in Texas, different schools) and lived variously in Austin, ...

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Where Do We Get Such Men?

25 years ago last Thursday, a Mercedes-Benz truck driven by two members of a terrorist group that would later take the name Hezbollah roared past the sentry posts of the Marine Barracks at Beirut International Airport and crashed into the lobby of the building. An instant later, an explosion equivalent to six tons of TNT lifted the entire four-story concrete structure off its foundations and ...

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Thirty-nine Years

Where Do We Get Such Men?