Today’s newspapers and electronic news media are constantly sending the message that the United States is threatened by terrorist activit...

I originally planned to write about another subject today, but the significance of June 6th led me to change my mind. What happened on th...

Friday is my usual day for blogging, but I had more important matters to attend to this week. Fifty-seven years ago yesterday, I did the ...

On Monday, Americans will celebrate Memorial Day. To many, Memorial Day represents the real beginning of summer. To others, the Indianapo...

I have been an admirer of Ken Follett’s novels for years. I believe that he is one of the very best novelists of the late Twentieth and e...

Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expressi...

Loosely translated, the title Latin phrase means, “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” It is one of the many mottos of the U.S. Navy’...

First, let me apologize to my blog followers for the long pause in my postings. December and January have been very busy for my family. I...

In my childhood, Thanksgiving was truly a family affair. I grew up in a large extended family whose spiritual anchor was my Grandmother T...

My wife, Annette, and I have an excellent financial consultant named Ric Edelman who manages of our assets for us. Every month, Ric puts...

Last week, my wife and I watched the movie, Philomena, for the first time. Based on a true story, the film tells about an Irish woman’s ...

IWhen a younger performer suggested that country music legend George Jones and other older singers should step aside and leave the scene ...

I have experienced three momentous “where were you when…” events in my life. The first occurred on December 7, 1941. I was only five-and-...

When I was working with an agent on my first book, Fall Eagle One, the agent called my action/adventure novel, “a boy book.” After public...

Today, we live in a world of technological marvels. We take most of them for granted. Yet so many of the innovations we enjoy did not ex...

I am a lifelong fan of newspaper comic strips. When I was a young man, the comic strip characters with whom I identified were Steve Canyo...

I write historical novels about war. My first book, Fall Eagle One, is about World War II in Europe. My second novel, Hold Back the Sun, ...

The world in which I grew up was relatively simple. Most people lived and died in the areain which they were born. Transportation was sti...

Few computers existed when my generation came of age. My first Navy duty station, the Naval Research Laboratory, had one of them for use ...

Last Tuesday, July 1st, Admiral Michelle Howard became the first woman four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy, joining the first women who ho...