November 8, 2021

What Congress can do to make this upcoming Veterans' Day truly happy

As a young child attending Vacation Bible School at a small church in Mobile, Alabama, I learned a phrase from the song "Jesus Loves the Little Children": "Red, yellow, black, and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves...

September 7, 2021

A Tale of Two Evacuations

As I reflect on the recent news of leaving Afghanistan, it reminds me of the evacuation I participated in as a junior enlisted marine in Beirut, Lebanon in 1984.  Despite both the differences and similarities between these two operations, the ma...