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"A Dangerous Place" "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die…" went through my head as I sat in the ...

Purchased in 1984 They were partly a middle finger to the college establishment who instructed males that gr...

Same bike at Ft Bragg - Post Beatles - Sans Peace Symbol The first bicycle appeared in the garage of our quarters on Ft Sill. Red with whi...

Sunday Brunch, 2004 Merde, time flies.

One of the things I like about Arthur is the distance he's managed to travel so far off the reservation. Unashamedly original,...

Sundays are my SkaDays. Missing Words by The Selectors. Under the radar but a sone cold classic. It went well with a Bloody Mary, side b...

Trad Pinup, Mary Louise Drysdale , Interior Designer and Antiques Expert, 9/2000 A Life ago, my Ex and I came close to buying an antique...

The French Foreign Legion, 1984, photographed by John Robert Young I heard the platoon from my back yard.  40 men in white t-shirts, gr...

With DB. Atlanta, Summer 1994

When I worked on Ellis Island, I had about 12 guys who were union movers reporting to me. They were making four times what I was making a...

Photographer Unknown  US Air Force  ARVN Jump over Tay Ninh Province  Denim & Supply - Ralph Lauren SP/4 Salvador Romero 15...

Rightly or wrong, whenever I hear "…the VA," I cringe.  I entered the Army in 1976 for a four year stint as an airborne infantr...

"Whenever you go down the roads in Britain, you travel not in three dimensions but in four.  The fourth dimension is the past.  And a...

You don't see the peach colored shirt as much anymore and that's a shame --  Loads of color will  go with it and it's an eleg...

From Left: A couple A team sergeants and Dad on far right Smoke Bomb Hill and Hammond Hills (click image to enlarge) I remember him walk...

Second from Left This post was from 2-2-2011 and reminds me of my mother's great love of  Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.  In ...