A 1.5-hour drive took me to Boalsburg, home of the Pennsylvania Military Museum. The married bloggers who write Random Intolerance also live in the State College area, and I got to meet them, too.
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It is a world of difference between where I’m teaching and Russia, just over 500 miles away from my location and 58 miles across the Bering Strait. Our freedom is rented, paid with the lives of volunteer and drafted soldiers for hundreds of years. It can be lost, either through invasion or through the surrender of our willingness to govern ourselves.
For my day off I drove down to Los Angeles and Hollywood.
My first stop was the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood. I got there right at opening and got really good service. The waitress informed me that the Los Angeles location was temporarily shut down; the landlord had raised the rent, and the HRC [...]
AP reports that Barack Obama told military vets that he would not lower the drinking age.
Army veteran Ernest Johnson, 23, of Connecticut, said one of the things that peeved him before he turned 21 was that he couldn’t come home and drink a beer — even though he was old enough to serve in the [...]
The discovery and publication of the whereabouts of Prince Harry of Wales involves interesting ethical issues on the part of the media and the military.
BBC reports that the British army will likely move Prince Harry out of Afghanistan for fear that he would become a prized target for the Taliban.
A famous personality in the military [...]
