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Among the more salient statements made during yesterday’s 9-11 Patriots Day observances, was the reminder that “we didn’t ask for this fight” in the war against terrorism.  True words indeed.  I mean, whoever asks for an attack of any magnitude?  But, I’ll take it a step further.

I haven’t been feeling well the last couple of days.  It’s a summer cold.  I must have picked it up somewhere because I don’t usually become ill.  Around here, I have my schedule and my pursuits.  But I’ve been travelling recently and who knows if it’s allergies or I picked it up on an airplane or what?

At least, their steel and resolve.  When faced with long odds for victory and national destruction, the British turned to this hymn for encouragement and determination.  Conservatives in our own country could sure use some of this same resolution.

We found contentment yesterday in the skies over western Nebraska.  We took as many as could go, including my two young granddaughters to see the total eclipse of the sun.  It fulfilled a promise I made to myself on March 7, 1970 to never miss another solar eclipse that was within a few hours’ drive.  I finally put that to rest.  But that wasn’t the “contentment” part.

When I was studying political science as a cadet at the Academy, I was challenged by my faculty advisor to make predictions.  “What good is it,” he would say, “if you study this in order to practice the ‘science’ of politics, and not make predictions?”  He was right. 

Too many people on all sides of the cultural divide are carelessly throwing around the word “enemy” and they need to stop.  If we don’t know who the enemy truly is, from what direction he arrives, and in what strength he comes, then we are all too easily defeated, or at least subject to his blast effects.  Just how strong is he?

Too many people on all sides of the cultural divide are carelessly throwing around the word “enemy” and they need to stop.  If we don’t know who the enemy truly is, from what direction he arrives, and in what strength he comes, then we are all too easily defeated, or at least subject to his blast effects.  Today, let’s see from what direction he comes.

In the years since repeal of Section 654 of Title X of the U.S. Code, commonly referred to as the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for the United States Armed Forces, much has happened.

Too many people on all sides of the cultural divide are carelessly throwing around the word “enemy” and they need to stop.  If we don’t know who the enemy truly is, from what direction he comes, and in what strength he arrives, then we are all too easily defeated, or at least subject to his blast effects.  Today, let’s look at who is the enemy.

I went to a funeral yesterday at the Protestant Cadet Chapel of the Air Force Academy and I was filled with many different emotions.