J. M. Patton and I were plebes together at West Point in the summer of 1969 with the Class of 1973. It was then called Beast Barracks. We owe everything we are or hope to ever be to our First Detail Beast squad leader. The service academy experience is unique and hard to describe. J.M. …
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Will Defund the Police Calls lead to Defunding the Military? If you believe that God ordained in scripture four divine institutions and laws of divine establishment for the protection of freedoms within a nation, or if you believe the Great Charter of Freedoms, commonly known as the Magna Carta of 1215, it is clear from …
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Scapegoat theory refers to the tendency to blame someone else for one’s own problems. Scapegoating serves as an opportunity to explain failure or misdeeds, while maintaining one’s positive self-image. I found the situation about COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the firing of its commander, Captain Brett Crozier, USNA ‘92, interesting on multiple levels. …
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I love House, America —— population 33 and surrounding farms and ranches. It is a community where Christ is King of Kings, and values are taught generation to generation. A school of forty or so and a CO-OP store is all there is: one for a safe nurturing learning environment, the other where neighbors visit over …
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