It’s been my privilege to be brought alongside a number of military families who have cared for adult disabled children all of their lives. The selflessness, love, patience, perseverance and yes, courage of these families leaves me in awestruck admiration. Greater love hath no one . . . The reason [...]
When the Commander Errs: The Article 138 Complaint Last month we talked about the disparity between the integrity expected of governmental figures and bureaucrats and the integrity demanded of the uniformed service on pain of punitive UCMJ action. This month I’d like to draw the curtain back on a little [...]
As you read this Casey Anthony is a free woman, having been acquitted by a jury in Florida of any criminal liability in the death of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee. As a rule, I don’t pay attention to such things, but I happened to catch the closing argument of the [...]
Last month, we looked into how we might help our retired fighter pilot Ace Azimov with his finances when it became apparent he was no longer able to manage them himself. We arranged for a professional conservator to manage his money and finances, while still keeping him substantially independent. Ace [...]
Stop me if you’ve heard this. It’s 0200 and the phone rings. Good news seldom arrives at that hour, so you’re already on edge. “Grandpa?” says the female voice on the other side? Hearing isn’t what it used to be, so you reply, “Jessica, is that you?” “Oh yes! Thank [...]
“Our Nation has a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service, especially for those who fought on the front lines.” Thus wrote the U.S. Supreme Court in Porter v. McCollum, a 2009 case in which it overturned the death penalty for a twice-wounded Korean War [...]
Most of us are familiar with VA disability compensation. We know it is income-tax free, is based upon service connected or service aggravated disability, and can replace on a dollar-for-dollar basis military retired pay, thus providing the retired veteran with a modest tax break. This is not about concurrent receipt [...]
Most of us are familiar with VA disability compensation. We know it is income-tax free, is based upon service connected or service aggravated disability, and can replace on a dollar-for-dollar basis military retired pay, thus providing the retired veteran with a modest tax break. This is not about concurrent receipt [...]
Revisionists have spent the last fifty years trying hard to excise Thanksgiving from among those few remaining holidays with expressly religious origins. We are told that the Founding Fathers were atheists, agnostics, or, at best Deists. A certain elementary school I know advised its students that the first Thanksgiving was [...]
In 480 B.C. at Thermopylae a fabled band of a few hundred Spartans, Thespians, and Thebans under King Leonidas I of Sparta held off the Persian hoards of Xerxes I for three days, buying with their lives sufficient time for the Greeks to withdraw and consolidate their forces for the [...]