Yesterday would have been my nephew's 24th birthday, instead it marks 4 days shy of the anniversary of his death ( Read more... )

The NY Times has a feature on the U.S. Iraq War dead, which you can see hereMy nephew's face is among the 3,999 others that have paid for this fucking crime of a war ( Read more... )

This is going to be a hard weekly grad school report to write, not because I am not in the mood to write, I have actually been in the mood quite a bit - but rather because when I have been able to overcome the frustration of not having time to write for myself this week, what I have written has been shit. The path to every post of any substance ( Read more... )

And on it goes. . . I find myself in a low place today. Even the Mets taking eight of their last nine games, sweeping both the Braves and the Astros and moving to 20 games over .500 cannot lift me out of this funk ( Read more... )

Here is a pic of me and my nephew this past February when he was back in the States on leave:


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I wanted to be able to come back from GEN CON with humorous tales of fun games and meet-ups, but alas, that is not to be. It is not because it was a bad con, all things considered it was pretty good, but on Thursday night, after a day of fun and games, I received a voice mail message from my sister. I was to call home. It was an emergency ( Read more... )

My nephew joined the army not that long ago ( Read more... )

I just found out my 22-year old nephew who joined the Army when nothing else seemed to be working for him leaves for Iraq on Sunday.

On Friday, I took the day off of work to head down to south Jersey and attend my brother's retirement ceremony. He has completed 22 years of service in the Air Force. Now, anyone that knows me that I am a pretty anti-military kind of guy and you know my opinions on minorities and poor folks in the military and inequity in society leading to ( Read more... )