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Book review “Angels in the Sky” by Robert Gandt

Friday, October 16th, 2020 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Angels in the Sky “How a band of volunteer Airmen saved the new state of Israel” by Robert Gandt Over the years, I get asked to review books and movies.  This book I regret was lost in an office move only to ...

20th Anniversary of the bombing of Oklahoma City Federal Building

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Hard to believe it's been 20 years since the bombing of the Murrah Federal building.  Randy Norfleet, Capt USMC is a friend of mine and asked me if I could help him write this.  It was an honor to help ...

Eliza’s house

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Dear friends and family, At dawn this morning Jake and I set out to Eliza's house.  The main road that leads out to the valley where she lives was bustling with families on their way to church and motorcycle taxi drivers ...

Sgt. Merlin German’s trip home to the WWR

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Dignified Journey home, Colin Kimball, a local artist asked me if I could handle transporting a beautiful painting of a fallen Warrior, Sgt Merlin German up to DC to the Wounded Warrior Regiment where they are going to dedicate the call ...

The little Angel from Hopkinton

Wednesday, November 12th, 2014 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

The Little Angel: Once upon a time, many moons ago in a far distant quadrant of Texas, there was a young man.  This young man was living in a Bachelors Officers Quarters (like an apartment building) with about 100 of his ...

Andrew Diabo hiding in Malaysia

Monday, August 18th, 2014 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Andrew "Andy" Diabo update. I can’t believe it. Andrew’s wife showed up in 2013 at the Warren County NJ Farmers Fair with their son and she is back in the area again this year over in Bucks County PA and Frenchtown ...

Christopher David Duke another fake Marine

Monday, April 14th, 2014 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Christopher David Duke Remember when I talked about why folks will pretend to be something they aren’t? Well here is a case where a guy is pretending to be a former Marine and from the screen shots I have seen, ...

Crazy Lawsuit Friday, “After Burner”

Friday, March 28th, 2014 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »

Crazy Fight Suit Law suit. There is a guy named Jim “Murph” Murphy, who started this motivational speaking group called “After Burner” back in the 90’s.  They do some great stuff but recently Murph decided to patent the use of wearing ...

Q: can you get a speeding ticket in War? A: Yes

Monday, March 3rd, 2014 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 1 Comment »

Flashback Monday…Here is a letter from my dad who served over in Vietnam back in the old days.  They are in the process of moving out of their winter home when he came across this little jewel from 47 years ...

If you are a Poser, you are going down…

Sunday, February 9th, 2014 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

  This is a great piece by Jonn at "This Ain't Hell" and it about says it all... Hack.Stone wrote in the comments how there should be a written document to explain to phonies how to act after they’ve been busted. So, ...