Rockwall, TX (March 18, 2024) – Sometimes it makes a little sense to just stop and look around to see what we and our neighbors are subjected to on an almost daily basis. While the column this week is in no way an attempt to compete with Dave Lieber of the Dallas Morning News, its […]
Rockwall, TX (December 18, 2023) – In March of next year, here in Texas, we will have the Primary election where the voters will select those candidates who will compete in November for the various elected positions. And here in our county, we are going to have three highly competitive Republican races: County Commissioner for […]
Rockwall, TX (October 16, 2023) – This article was first published in December of 2009 and then again in 2020. It is being repeated at the request of numerous readers. Anyone who spent any time in Vietnam, especially around the Danang area, knew of “Monkey Mountain”. It was one of several spindly shafts of rock […]
Rockwall, TX (October 9, 2023) – This is an abbreviated repeat of an article I wrote in 2008. When assigned to the 10th Special Forces in Bad Tolz, Germany in 1961-1964, I served with some very interesting Soldiers. One of the most illustrious was a fellow officer by the name of Larry Thorne. Larry was a […]
Rockwall, TX (July 26, 2023) – Today the US Army has about 500,000 Soldiers in its active force. As previously discussed, people range in rank from Private to General. Skills these Soldiers are trained in range from supply room clerks, to infantryman, to tank commanders, to personnel specialists, to almost any vocation you would […]
Rockwall, TX (July 12, 2023) – I recently published an article discussing the introduction of a new recruit into the Army and several readers have asked that I write some more weekly articles about the military. Let’s first look at an Air Force subject. In 1955, the US Air Force introduced its new strategic bomber, […]
Rockwall, TX (May 2, 2023) – Currently in Austin, the House of Representatives and the Senate continue to debate two different plans to reduce our Property Taxes. The subject of reduction in this tax has been on the forefront of issues for more than several years. But it really started to heat up after about […]
Rockwall, TX (April 26, 2023) – While there is a lot of talk in Austin right now about lowering your property tax, nothing is going to happen by May 15, the date when you must fie to protest your current property tax. Fortunately, in the State of Texas you have several options when it comes […]
Rockwall, TX (April 18, 2023) – A couple of stories from long ago that should never go away and never be forgotten. In November of 1965, a US Army Battalion of about 450 Soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the La Trang Valley of South Vietnam. They were immediately surrounded by […]
ROCKWALL, TX (Feb. 17, 2023) And the mystery continues. Why didn’t we shoot down the Chinese spy balloon that crossed the entire United States before our military finally shot it down as it passed over our Eastern coast? That, in my opinion, is a good question. Ask yourself, “What if that would have been one […]