Trying to understand America, I found myself in a prison cell in Czechoslovakia in 1978. (more…) Continue Reading →
Sharing a cell with Czech mate
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Vietnam
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Remembering Rodger, the vet who gave other vets hope
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It’s a time of jarring incongruity. Outdoors, trees shiver in the summer heat. Dew dries at dawn. Everything is ripe and wilting. Indoors, vitriol and inanity drip from the airwaves as journalists breathlessly report the latest in the limbo contest that now passes for leadership in our nation’s capital. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, Great Falls, Greg Pinski, Rodger McConnell, Veterans Court, Vietnam
3-war warrior had varied Air Force career
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The tattered plastic box had an Army post office box number from Vietnam that didn’t exist anymore. Inside was a tape recording of an F-100 Super Saber pilot flying out of Bien Hoa (pronounced Ben Waah) Air Base in that country; it was a way of keeping the pilot’s wife and family current with his combat tour activities. It was Jan. 13, 1970, the pilot with the call sign “Bobcat 2” was Air Force Col. Robert Laliberté (La-liber-tay), and this was his third war. Continue Reading →
