Tag: Korea

  • 9 – Three Big Ideas of Asian History

    9 – Three Big Ideas of Asian History

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    by ProfDave, ©2022 (Apr. 5, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: Please see the previous installments in this series here.] We are attempting to absorb the whole of Asian experience in the middle period of history, about 300 to 1500 AD – with flashbacks to centuries before the “Common Era.”  If you are not on information overload,…

  • The Land that Forgot Something

    The Land that Forgot Something

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    “GOD WILL BE THE ENEMY” by Professor Zorkophsky, ©2020 (Oct. 23, 2020) — “Hello, and glad you could make the premier. You are to be seated in 27-J, so please follow me. Here we are. Careful; don’t spill your drink or popcorn. Enjoy the show. Overture “This Land is Your Land” (4:30) is played as…

  • U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 21

    U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 21

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    “THEY NEED A CAPTAIN” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 6, 2019) — In the previous installment of this story, then-U.S. Army Lieutenant Gary Mason had written a letter to the general of his unit, the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, expressing concern for the safety of a number of soldiers from his former unit, 3/4 Cav., who…

  • Interview with a Former Presidential Candidate

    Interview with a Former Presidential Candidate

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    “WE’RE OUT OF TIME” by OPOVV, ©2015 (May 10, 2015) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, Roving Reporter here. Tonight we’re in for a special treat. We’ve been given the green light to interview OPOVV, a former presidential candidate during the 2012 elections. I might add that this is the first interview that OPOVV has ever…

  • 21st Century Foreign Policy

    21st Century Foreign Policy

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    Sharon Rondeau
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    WHAT IS WRONG WITH PROTECTING AMERICA FROM ITS ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC? by OPOVV, ©2013 (Mar. 30 2013) — It goes to follow to “Do as I do, not as I say.” That being the case, as I previously stated in my campaign speeches, we deport our enemy from within our borders.  Now how can one…

  • The Grey-Haired Brigade

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    Sharon Rondeau
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    “THERE IS NO WAY WE ARE GOING TO REMAIN SILENT” submitted by a Brigade Member (Mar. 9, 2012) — They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are “Baby Boomers” getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk…

  • Americans Get Stronger When The Odds Are Against Them!

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    Sharon Rondeau
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    FROM THE PARALLAX PROPHECIES by Ron Ewart, ©2011 (Oct. 10, 2011) — That’s right, you weren’t paying attention and the evil ones slipped in the back door and took over.  But is that any reason to throw your hands in the air and say, “….. what’s the use, we’re licked”?  Did all the men and…

  • US Strategy – Or the Lack Thereof

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    Sharon Rondeau
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    WHY ARE THOSE IGNORANT OF HISTORY RUNNING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY? by Paul E. Vallely, ©2011 (Mar. 29, 2011) — Paraphrasing General Of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s speech – West Point in 1962: “Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be … They…

  • Is the giant sleeping, or comatose?

    Is the giant sleeping, or comatose?

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    Sharon Rondeau
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    HISTORY SHOULD TEACH US… by Dennis R. Roach (Sept. 15, 2010) — After the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Japanese aboard the fleet which carried it out were jubilant; that is, all but Admiral Yamamoto, the man who planned and executed it. He seemed to have serious reservations regarding the absolute…