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I have a keen appreciation for women who live with disabled veterans who are suffering within themselves. I’m talking about veterans who want to live in the present but just can’t seem to get out of their past. Veterans who suffer within themselves find it...
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I’m a “newspaper guy.” I didn’t say I was a good “newspaper guy,” just a “newspaper guy.” There is a guy like me in every newspaper office in the world. I think you know why this is true but I’ll go ahead and explain anyway....
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Yesterday I went over to my friend, Terry Vender’s, house because I had an inkling that something was not right here in our little town of Winters, California. After I read the local newspaper, I got this uneasy feeling from my head to my knees...
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I think my wife is going crazy. Have you ever seen a chicken with its head cut off, I mean clear off? Well that’s exactly how she is acting! She’s running here and there and then back again, mumbling as she goes. I suppose all...
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The human brain is a strange yet beautiful thing. Some think it is the source of all that we say, feel, think, and do. For them, the brain is the origin of all. If we think about this idea for a few moments, it becomes...
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For years now, I have wanted to put into words how much I love my wife Therese. Over and over, time after time, I have tried to pen the words that might let her know exactly how I feel. I have found that it is...
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This is a bad time of year for me. It was 46 years ago (almost to the day) that things turned sour for me. I was a kid soldier in Vietnam like so many other American boys at the time. Unlike the Vietnamese boys, the...
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I believe the American dream is not dead — it has just changed, just as it has changed before. Originally, it was the pursuit of happiness, but with the industrial revolution, the definition of happiness changed and it became more of a material thing like...
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Have you ever done something so wrong that it troubled you every day since you did it? I think most of us probably have. Into us all a little guilt must creep. I’m getting older now and when I think back through the years, I...
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