This month, I am honoring Pete Fouche and two very brave Ukrainian women who were combat medics like Pete, Yana Rykhlitska and Iryna Tsybukh, all three of whom died in 2024 helping to save the lives of wounded Ukrainian soldiers…
In May 2019, I was asked to MC the Annual Meeting of the Coachella Valley Bar Association at the Palm Springs Air Museum. When I arrived, I discovered that I would be sitting with Dick and Kris Rutan. I had…
My great grandfather was elected Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives by a unanimous vote of Republicans and Democrats in the 1890s and later went on to become Attorney General of Iowa, again receiving substantial bi-partisan support. It is…
We are constantly presented with images of heroism from Ukraine which is justifiably a focal point given the atrocities committed against the Ukrainian people almost every day and the brave and fierce resistance of their soldiers and truly all of…
Al Gray died this month at the ripe old age of 95. It was my privilege to spend a day with General Gray in San Diego while he was Commandant of the Corps. I will never forget that day or…
I did not have the privilege of knowing Augie at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) as he arrived four years after I graduated but our paths indirectly crossed through mutual friends and he is certainly deserving of my tribute to him…
Thirty-six years ago this month, our nation mourned the loss of seven astronauts on the Space ShuttleChallenger as millions watched the rocket disintegrate on live television and the painful slow returnto earth of the command module until it impacted in…
In the fall of 1967, I was a senior at La Jolla Country Day School and my college admissions officer (Mike Holmes) was also my political science teacher. Mike recommended that I take a trip to Claremont Men's College before…
This month, I am featuring Zachary Fisher as my hero of the month for providing the seed money and the impetus for Fisher Houses, a magnificent organization helping provide temporary housing for our military veterans and their families while visiting…
I have had an interest in aviation dating back to the early 1970s when as a young student at Claremont Men's College I wrote my senior thesis on the politics of the General Dynamics F-111, designed as a multi-service/multi-role combat…