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Making Coffee
Proud that on Veterans Day my latest piece is out in the wonderful journal As You Were: The Military Review from the fine folks at Military Experience and the Arts! Find it here: https://militaryexperience.org/as-you-were-the-military-review-vol-15/making-coffee-halfway-in-kabul/
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Ongoing Afghanistan Crisis Appearance – 11/1/21
Very grateful to NBC 7 San Diego’s Allie Raffa for keeping this personal, important, and ongoing issue in the news, while allowing me to make it personal for her viewers. Things YOU can do to help: 1) Write/call your elected officials and demand to know what they are doing to reduce the processing backlog. 2)… Read more
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Updated 8/23/21 Afghanistan Withdrawal – Writings and Appearances
Like many Afghanistan veterans, my feelings on developments there are many and complicated as Biden first announced a complete withdrawal of troops and then later an acceleration of that withdrawal.
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Fighting battles, finding peace – my grandfather and me.
Grateful that the VA published something I wrote about PTSD, my grandfather, and me. I hope it helps #endthestigma. #ptsd #mentalhealth Find the post here: https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/90256/fighting-battles-finding-peace-grandfather/
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James is now on Medium
You can now find some of James’s musings on Medium here: https://medium.com/@jamesseddonauthor “Follow” him with the green button at the top and never miss a musing!
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The Navy Needs To Stop Buying Big Ships To Do All Its Small Jobs
Well, it seems the Navy read my article and modified the frigate design to be a proven and affordable one! Well, I can’t prove they read my article.
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Has justice actually been served for the USS Fitzgerald disaster?
Excited to have another piece published with Task & Purpose: https://taskandpurpose.com/has-justice-actually-been-served-for-the-uss-fitzgerald-disaster This was a follow up to a piece I wrote shortly after Fitzgerald’s deadly collision in 2017. That original piece is here: https://taskandpurpose.com/fitzgeralds-watch-team-mine I love Task & Purpose, so I’m always stoked when they pick something from me (three so far)! T&P’s Facebook post… Read more
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Remembering 9/11
Speaking at UC San Diego’s 9/11 Remembrance It was an honor to be asked to speak at UC San Diego’s 9/11 Remembrance. I struggled to decide what to say. Events like this are hard. What wouldn’t come across as cliché? What might be fresh? What isn’t over the top? Below is what I came up… Read more
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Veteran Transition Panel
Was honored and excited to be invited to sit on a panel along with some great military veterans in industry for a discussion with Rady School of Management veteran students. It was a career panel for the Rady Veteran’s group of evening and weekend MBA students. The topic for discussion was career transition from military… Read more
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Incoming: Sex, Drugs, and Copenhagen
Honored to have a piece included in this terrific anthology of military veteran writing. The theme is “extreme acts of escapism during service time.” Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Incoming-Sex-Drugs-Copenhagen-Veteran-Escapism/dp/0997949937