Monthly Archives: May 2019

I Bombed Pearl Harbor

My wife was going through her dad’s papers (see my blog on Robert Allen Coy from January 29, 2019) when she came across a newspaper article that he had kept.  The article was about the memoirs of a Japanese pilot … Continue reading

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What Lies within Us

One more takeaway from Amy Shively Hawk’s book Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton.  She quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson at the start of one of her chapters.  “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared … Continue reading

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How God Judges People

In the last blog, we talked about the life of the Vietnam War POW James Shively.  In the book about Shively, the author recounts a story from John McCain who was also a POW along with Shively.  At one point, … Continue reading

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How to Live

The book about the Vietnam War POW, Jim Shively, contains a tribute from a friend and a former POW cellmate.  This tribute concerns the character of Shively; the fact that even in the North Vietnamese prison he showed those he … Continue reading

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