I don’t know exactly how we ended up with both our children in the military. And both pilots no less. Neither Don or I had ever been in the military. And in fact, other than one older cousin who was drafted during the Vietnam War, I really didn’t even know anyone from my generation who […]
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Several years ago I was visiting my daughter at her off-campus apartment in Orono near the University of Maine. She left for an afternoon class and I was passing the time reading a book on the coach in her living room when all of a sudden I heard a loud noise. Two well-built young […]
I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. My radio alarm went off just before 6 AM in Southern California. As I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, I heard the newscaster say that a plane had just struck the World Trade Center in New York. I went into […]
