Crazy Things We Do

I Said I Would I’m going to Aphganistan for the third time. I need something to keep me alive. I think this is going to be the time I die,” said the man on the other end of the line. A soldier. Being deployed. Wanted to cancel his AOL Internet. Needed incentive to be alive.Continue reading “Crazy Things We Do”

The Boy Who Watched the Air Force Bombers Fly Over

He lay there in the field of his parents’ German farm and watched the WWII bombers fly past. The war became personal when, as a student in Catholic High School in Germany, the Russian soldiers rounded everyone up and took them to Russia. His teacher, a priest, was never seen again. When WWII ended, theContinue reading “The Boy Who Watched the Air Force Bombers Fly Over”