Tuesday, 18th o June 2002
Bush-ism's
From an email exchange with my very good friend, Lauren Golden.
"Mr. President, can you please explain how a covert initiative to kill Saddam can be publically known."
"What I'm saying is that it's a covert public initiative. That is very different than a covert, private initiative. The two things are very very very different. Next question please."
The above is fiction. Any resemblance to true events is purely intentional.
Saturday, 1st o June 2002
Olaia Logic
Laura(emphatically): Olaia, you have to eat your ice cream cone from the sides.
Olaia (irritated): Nooooooo, I want to eat it from the top.
Laura: Olaia, you have to listen to Mommy.
Me: Yes, little girl you have to stop saying "no" all the time.
Olaia (questioningly): Yes... I want to eat it from the top?
Laura and I: (Guffaw, fall down laughing).
Saturday, 1st o June 2002
I just took command of the 597th Quartermaster Company (laundry and bath) here in Puerto Rico, and it's got me thinking about why our Army (armed forces) rule on the world stage. You take an infantry guy, granted ours are probably trained better, but not THAT much better that it alone would account for the disparity around the world. Basically, they train a guy to shoot (maybe he shot gophers on his farm when he was a kid), give him some type of army uniform and send him out in a squad with a mission. Sometimes he stays out for days, weeks, perhaps even months. He get's tired, cold, wet, hungry, just the same as our guys. But our guys have several advantages.
- We supply them with food.
- We stage ammo for them.
- We talk to them.
- We shower them them and clean up their uniforms.
Now #4 is what the 597th takes care of, and I have to say, I'd take a clean happy infantry man 9 times a week and twice on Sunday, over some bedraggled, malnourished, dirty, and rotten toothed SOB. I remember from Gen Schwartzkoff's book that he said after they pulled the first dirty, tired, cut up Iraq infrantryman from his hole in the ground in the middle of the desert, he knew we had Saddam beat. Anybody who would treat their soldiers like that didn't know what it took to win.
That's why we win folks, Combat Service Support, HOORAH !!!
Okay now, I'll be accepting jokes about being commander of a Laundry and Bath company *G*.
So I'm off tomorrow for two weeks with my soldiers in support of a Area Support Group training mission (that's like a brigade... but different, chuckle). We will be in the desert. Lovely.
Tuesday, 28th o May 2002
Manuel Nuñez's Patriotic Rendition of a Coqui and Puerto Rican Flag
Tuesday, 28th o May 2002
Juan Luis's View of from Old San Juan
With my students from the Juvenile Detention Center, we created some graphic art for a project. They drew out line sketches and I later filled them in via computer.
I think they turned out pretty well. Take a look at Juan Luis's here.