Days of War: Here’s To The Towel
Towel, you said? I thought you Vietnam infantry guys were supposed to be tough!
Days of War: Reflections
Last night I watched another Vietnam movie, whose name I can’t remember. Why cannot Hollywood get it at least halfway right re Vietnam?
Winner: SC Governor’s Award in the Humanities
Presented to George McDaniel for lifetime achievement as exemplied in his book “Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People”
Days of Peace: Cointreau, Christophe, and Chicken
Recently, I went to the liquor store and saw on the shelf a large bottle of Cointreau, the orange-flavored liqueur. Since Cointreau reminded me of Togo, I bought it.
Days of Peace: Africa – Heat, Sunrise and a Fly
Not just big things, but the little things we remember, don’t we?
Days of War: Hardened
My values had been blown away. I did not believe in God or country or other things, and in their place stood a contradiction. I valued life, yet I took it. I had become different and had been hardened in lots of ways as only many combat vets know.