I was going though some old photos from my years in the Marine Corps recently and I found pictures from a deployment in 1982 with TOW Company, 2nd Tank battalion, 2nd MARDIV. I looked at all of us clowning around and posing for snapshots "on Muscle beach" which was found wherever there was space between the racks. These photos and finding notes from a speech class where I wrote and read a eulogy made me do some serious thinking about our nation, and the war we are only now finally deal...

Undocumented Pipes Cause Pressure! Dude! Don’t You Bathe? For the last 7 days a lot of the folks here in San Angelo, Texas have suffered from a crisis caused by either no water pressure or very low, non-potable water pressure due to a supply pipe breaking, forcing the state to bring out the water tankers to ensure that the citizens of our fair city have drinkable water. It seems that a large diameter pipe decided to give up the ghost last Friday evening causing about 60% of town to los...