Tennessee Drifter

Random Thoughts at Random Times


military

  • Ripples in time…

    In 1976, I graduated from high school in Clinton, Iowa. I guess where is not really important to the issue, but thought I would mention it. Shortly after high school, I joined the Iowa Army National Guard–I was seventeen. The draft and the Vietnam War had both ended and America was a nation at peace. Continue reading

  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Today we are remembering the horrific events of 9/11/01. Four aircraft, three locations, and nearly three thousand innocent souls lost.  It was one of those days in American history that those of us who were alive will never forget–and yet, somehow seventeen years later our collective social conscience has seemed to have forgotten. Not the Continue reading