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Staring at the old photos that I had, until recently not known had existed, I felt as if I was taken back 70 years. For the first time ever, history felt relevant to me, and the mystery of my family’s …
Military Sexual Trauma they say, or simply “MST”An acronym for ease or one really just to hide the dis-ease? When it happened to me there were no acronymsand certainly not much awareness I went into the military in the era …
#IAmVanessaGuillen covered social media for months following the disappearance and brutal death of Vanessa Guillen, an SPC in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Hood, TX. Using this hashtag, many active-duty service members and veterans have come forward to share …
“Well,” there is always that long awkward pause, “that’s just the life you chose.” When I hear this statement, I often want to follow up with a guttural yell. In the last four years with my husband, who is in …
Most of my life has revolved around the military. Both my grandfather, Thomas Henry Bond, and my dad, Thomas Henry Bond Jr., were submariners in the Navy. Now, my older brother Thomas Henry Bond 3rd is a Super Hornet fighter …
Emotionally bereft, I focus on the technical aspects of traveling into Kuwait City, Kuwait, with several civilian-clothed soldiers on a contract bus driven by a Third Country National who doesn’t know the area well, either. The marketplace or the Souk …
Down with Democracy! Are not fools and stupid beings a majority in the world, and ought they not to have their representative? — Honoré de Balzac, Le Député d’Arcis. There’s been some muttering I’ve heard about a goverance preferred; it …
White society has no racial stamina. We are born into a hierarchical societal structure that is deeply rooted by separate and unequal practices based solely on the color of our skin. We are conditioned to believe that our gender, skin …
When night’s shadows no longer subside Autumn declares it has arrived The summer light now fades away Bringing with it shorter days Leaves of red soar to and fro As they clatter down the road Green fades to orange and …
