“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town …” Faulkner is a great writer. Reading his works is like taking a breath of fresh air after being stuck inside for days. I have read good books by good […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
When I was working for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, I was chosen to accompany a general on his flight in a brand-new C-17 Globemaster II being delivered from the Boeing plant in Los Angeles to Charleston AFB, South Carolina. It was a trip […]
“Lyles delivers newest C-17 to Air Force” for Air Force ...
“On the day of the miracle, Isabel was kneeling at the cliff’s edge, tending the small, newly made driftwood cross.” War can change a man. Love can also change a man. But, can love overcome the damage done by war? After serving in Australia’s military during World War I, Tom […]
The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
by M.L. Stedman
“I am not what you call a civilized man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!” Something interesting has been found in […]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
by Jules Verne
I was first published when I was only 10 years old. My 4th grade teacher encouraged me to write a lot (on a typewriter back then) and submit a few of my poems to a publishing contest. The contest was for students attending a Department of Defense school in Asia […]
“The Poles Poem”
in the Far East Sun Fifteen
in the Far East Sun Fifteen
“She had treated the war as another civic duty and had entered willingly into her many new commitments. She truly believed that all must serve to the best of their abilities, but the sight of Hugh in uniform, and the realization that his talents would send him to the battlefield, […]
The Summer Before the War
by Helen Simonson
by Helen Simonson
“I gazed around me, like someone suddenly handed clear glasses, and I saw that pretty much everyone bore the brutal imprint of love, whether it was lost, whipped away from the, or simply vanished into a grave.” SPOILER ALERT: If you plan to read Me Before You, please don’t read this review […]
After You
by JoJo Moyes
by JoJo Moyes
I was working part-time during college at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, when the USS Cole was attacked on Oct. 12, 2000. I remember thinking how many people on the ship were close to my age. I worked on the base newspaper, so I was allowed to get […]
“The world can change in an instant” for Air Pulse ...
“Complaining was not in fashion in 1943, not with so many sacrifices being made thousands of miles away, across oceans she had never seen.” “The most ambitious war project in military history rested squarely on the shoulders of tens of thousands of ordinary people, many of them young women.” “What […]
Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women ...
“What slows me are small shrines tucked alongside the sidewalks of Tokyo. These shrines are ignored by most passersby, but are tucked into small lots all over the city. I always stop to look, because I love the way they insist, against all contrary evidence, that some places in this […]
Motions and Moments:
More Essays on Tokyo
by Michael Pronko
More Essays on Tokyo
by Michael Pronko