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Bill started writing Central View in 1982 which provides a commentary about domestic and international affairs, written from a perspective slightly to the right of center. Each column is usually 530 words of text.
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The Misadventures of USARELMNAVWARCOL (opens the original)
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Protests at America’s universities, to include a rise in anti-Semitism, are in the news these days. Whether or not to support free speech is the issue. Used to be that the common definition of a university was a bunch of faculty, staff, and students assembled around a common parking grievance. No doubt the burning issue of the day will change as it always does; however, the lack of parking spaces is likely to persist.Which brings to mind the extreme lack of parking spaces when this writer was an
Remembering General Moshe Dayan (opens the original)
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In 1965, President Johnson sent several division-sized units to South Vietnam. In 1966, I was serving with the 1st Air Cavalry Division and that is how I met General Moshe Dayan. Dayan came from Israel to study what we were doing. As an assistant operations officer, one of my duties was to assist in the briefing of General Dayan. When General Dayan came to see us our forward command post was located in the Central Highlands near Pleiku. With his trademark black patch over one eye, his other eye
Continued: Another Chuck Yeager Story (opens the original)
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The recent column about flying as Colonel Chuck Yeager’s Guy-in-the-Back (GIB) evoked so many nice comments that more about the life of Chuck Yeager seems in order.In 1943, Yeager, flying a P-51, escorted allied bombers from England into occupied France. But, even before leaving England, Yeager shot down two German Aircraft. Shortly thereafter, Yeager was shot down over France and parachuted into the welcoming arms of the French Resistance, who bandaged his wounds and gave him shelter. In return
Remembering Brig.-General Chuck Yeager (opens the original)
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On September 12, 1941, a young man who grew up in a West Va. home with no electricity or running water enlisted in the US Army Air Corps. This private went on to attain aviation heights that few thought even possible.When this Infantry officer met him, he was Colonel Chuck Yeager, commander of the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW) (F-4s) and the officer who induced me to learn to fly. Following my first tour in Vietnam, I was sent to Seymour-Johnson USAF Base to assist the 19th U.S. Air Force, the
Remembering 9/11 (opens the original)
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If you were born on September 11, 2001, you would now be 25-years-old and not likely to know much about that tragic day. According to the www.911memorial.org, 100 million Americans are too young to remember that historic event.Taken from Rumsfeld’s autobiography, Known and Unknown, and interviews is Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s recollections of that fateful day:On September 11, 2001, Defense Secretary Dona
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