For over 40 years, I have read Aviation Week & Space Technology at the urging of my beloved college professor, Dr. Harold W. "Bill" Rood. During that time, AW&ST has had many gifted writers, but one of my all-time favorites…
As I have commented many times, while we need to address problems related to policing minority communities, increasingly the victims of senseless killings are wonderful people recruited from minority communities to serve in law enforcement. (See my Hero of the…
On May 27, 2019, Bill Buckner died at the age of 69. We got to know Bill and his wife Jody on a week-long rafting trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River almost 20 years ago and thoroughly…
There has been a debate in law enforcement circles for several years about the best response to the all-too-frequent situations involving armed attacks on schools. The emerging consensus seems to support immediate and direct intervention even at the risk of…
In an era when politics has definitely gotten nastier, it is worth remembering a kind and good man who always conducted himself with dignity and stayed the course as a moderate. Dick Lugar (R- Indiana) passed this month at the…
This month's hero is a man who has answered a desperate call for a unique kind of help to save the lives of endangered sea turtles. As the Arctic ice melts and the polar vortex sweeps lower each winter,…
Like most people I know, the greatest debt of gratitude in my life is my parents: because they did so much to instill in me the right values and supported me with endless acts of kindness, and they also sacrificed for…
My October, 2016, Hero of the Month was Dr. Paul Allen Cox; this month it is Dr. Richard Sacra. Dr. Sacra is one of hundreds of doctors from the United States and Europe, who along with their colleagues, tend to…
On December 1st, the US Navy commissioned the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer (DDG 116) named after one of America's legendary Medal of Honor recipients: Thomas Hudner, Jr. of Concord, Massachusetts. It was my privilege to meet and correspond…
Veteran's Day November 11th (known as Remembrance Day in Canada), marked the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War l. For many it was a joyous day because they knew for sure for the first time that their loved ones…