THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

“Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel George D. Wolfe Jr., of Ligonier, [PA], passed away at his home Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. He was born Jan. 14, 1934, in Gettysburg, to the late Rev. George D. Wolfe and Vernie Warner Wolfe…. “George was a husband, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a brother and a friend, but [...]

A bit of Veterans Day insight, just one day late. Sorry about that: I would not especially care to see the return of the Draft, which caught me just days after my college graduation in 1967 and sent me to war in 1969-70 and home again to job discrimination and psychological abuse. The draft was [...]

These are the men of 60th Company, OC 504-68, who were killed in Viet Nam. We graduates of that 1968 class at Infantry Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, commemorate these seven each Memorial Day. One graduate:  1LT Jacob Lee Kinser, a Huey pilot. Two Tactical Officers:  CPT Reese Michael Patrick and 1LT Daniel [...]

Now here’s a cool Vietnam veterans project I read about in the current issue of VVA Veteran: The Library of Vietnam. It’s a string of childrens libraries, with books, computers and Internet connections, mainly across the middle of the country (the northern end of the former Republic of South Viet Nam), financed, stocked and built [...]

I would not especially care to see the return of the Draft, which was inequitable before and likely would be again, but it would at least spread the burden among more of the educated than volunteering does now, to the detriment of all: “The loss of the martial virtues weakens an entire culture. Whole generations [...]

“All we need to do is develop a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have hidden on or in your body.  The explosion will be contained within the sealed booth. “This would be a win-win for everyone.  There would be none of [...]

My four years of Army service in the late 60s, including a year in Vietnam. My late father’s flying in World War II and his Air Force career thereafter, and Mr. Boy’s late maternal grandfather who flew in Vietnam in a Navy career. My nephew’s current service as a pilot-rated Navy officer. A Mississippi cousin-by-marriage [...]

Seems like only yesterday… Actually it was at noon on June 3, 1968, which is roughly 15,147 yesterdays. The magic day and time I graduated from the Benning School for Boys. Sounds like a reform school for “troubled” youth. In a way, it was. Considering that it was a one-way track that led straight to [...]

These are the men of 60th Company, OC 504-68, who were killed in Vietnam. We graduates of that 1968 class of Infantry Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, commemorate them each Memorial Day weekend. One graduate:  1LT Jacob Lee Kinser. Two Tactical Officers:  CPT Reese Michael Patrick and 1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender. Four drop-outs:  [...]

Bob Phillips, an OC-504 comrade who served as a San Diego assistant district attorney for many years says the allegedly-racist Arizona anti-illegal immigration law isn’t new: “…at least as I understand it, doesn’t change the existing law at all, except maybe to encourage Arizona cops to be more proactive in doing what the Border Patrol [...]