All previous editions of this blogpost are obsolete. The experience of last nights mortar/rocket attack gave me a perspective into the life of a non-combat soldier. These lads and lasses who were taking up all the space in the bunkers were not even in gear. I roll up to the bunker shortly after the first…
Author: Mike Colombini
Miserando Atque Eligendo
598 years ago Pope Gregory XII resigned from the holy office of the papacy during a time of severe confusion and moral ambiguity which threw the then current Roman Catholic Church into turmoil. Keep in mind that was before the Protestant Revolution when all Christians where Catholic and vice versa. (except for a few cases…
A Lovely Dream
I wrote this poem for my beloved wife, while apart from her in Afghanistan. I lay in slumber and I dream of a woman far away, Who waits in silence tenderly for that fateful day. I long to hold her hand and smell her fragrant hair, But alas she walks on by me and all…
We Remember
“On this a day of thought and contemplation, we reflect on what this country lost in that far gone day of desolation.” The countless lives that have fallen spark us to recall how we live our lives so callously day to day. Although regardless of the time that has past we bring to mind the…
Discovering Reality 