Category: U.S. History
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, March 25, 2024, or: Mixed Tidings for the Start of the New Workweek
Late Morning/Midday, Monday, March 25, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, folks. It’s a cloudy and chilly early spring day here in my corner of New Hampshire on this first day of the new workweek. The current temperature is 35°F (2°C) under mostly cloudy conditions (although to be fair, we seem to be under a gap…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, November 22, 2023, or: Thanksgiving Eve News, Pre-Moving Mixed Emotions, and All That Stuff
Late Morning/Midday, Wednesday, November 22, 2023, Lithia, Florida Rain in Tampa – Rain & Snow in Madison Hey, there, folks. Well, here we are on the day before my last Thanksgiving here in the Tampa Bay area – and my last major holiday in my native state of Florida. And since we’re on the countdown…
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September 11, 2001 Plus 22 Years: Time Has Passed, But The Memories Are Still Vivid
Adapted from a post I wrote in my original A Certain Point of View blog on Google’s Blogger platform. If you were to ask me if I remember what happened on Monday, September 10, 2001, I would have to be honest and say “Nothing, really.” I surely must have walked my six-year-old Labrador retriever, done…
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The Normal and the Crazy: America in 2023 (A Haiku)
Oh, land divided Between the “crazy” and “sane”! Do not choose “crazy.”
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Old Gamers Never Die: Starting 2023’s Gaming with the Updated ‘Regiments’ in Mobile Defense Mode
Old Gamers Never Die: Tackling the ‘Mobile Defense’ Skirmish in Regiments If you’re a regular visitor to A Certain Point of View, Too, you may remember that late last summer – in the last weeks of August – I purchased Regiments, a real-time tactical game depicting conventional combat in an alternate version of 1989 in…
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Tempus Fugit: Remembering Mid-December, 1972: New School, New Girlfriend, and Apollo’s Last Hurrah
“December is the holdout month, all the others torn away.” ― Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading With Christmas Day of 2022 only 12 days away – and New Year’s Eve 18 days in the future – and my move to Brandon looming on a date that is “TBA”…
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Reflections on America and Its History: Takeaways from the First Part of ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands,…
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Book Review: ‘The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11’
We have some planes. – Mohammad Atta, Hijacker I look at the clock, and every time I look at the clock, it seems to be 9:11. I’m like, “Oh, 9:11 again.” It just happens, something so simple like that. – Sharon Miller, Officer, Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) On September 10, 2019, Avid Reader Press…
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Old Gamers Never Die: My First Total Victory in ‘Regiments’ (Oh, and This is Blog Post #1,000!)
V-Day in Grasleben! “The fight isn’t over until you win.” ― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin Last night, while refighting the Battle of Grasleben for – I think – the 10th time since I purchased Regiments (Bird’s Eye Games/MicroProse, 2022) on August 16, I earned my first Total Victory as the Blue force (American) commander against…
A Certain Point of View, Too 