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The quest to find the perfect name for the newly arrived member of your family is much like a treasure hunt. This treasure hunt is not merely exciting but also blissful and has long-lasting implications not only for you as parents but also for the baby. If you are Scottish, your ancestors were Scottish, or […]

I recently sat down with an elder of the White Mountain Apache tribe, who granted me permission to write about some of the more obscure aspects of Apache history around the turn of the twentieth century. Most of our conversations revolved around Geronimo, but we also discussed other famous Indians as wells. One in particular […]

The Apache were amazing warriors! Back in the later part of the 1880’s they were the last of the Indian people in the entire nation still fighting the United States Army! Each Apache warrior was said to be a self contained unit in and of themselves. They were not only self sufficient, but incredibly resourceful […]

Today I went through a file I have on my desk containing nothing but incidents of “security breaches” at nuclear power plants and facilities going back five years. They include a stack of articles about 1.2 inches think. I was hoping to do a more detailed report on this subject, but time constraints prevent that […]

In the US Army I underwent some of the most arduous training imaginable,  boot camp, infantry school, airborne school…etc. I also served in one of the toughest units within the 82nd Airborne Division – the 2-508th Airborne infantry (“Devils in baggy pants”).  Needless to say I would have never survived it without a certain degree […]