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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
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Grandfather’s swastikas
A piece that I first started thinking about after Charlottesville got published in the LA Times! Find it here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-seddon-swastika-nazi-grandfather-20190308-story.html What it looked like in print below!
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Performance at Veterans’ Creative Arts Expo
Was honored to read my piece “The Urchins and the Demon” at this expo: https://www.sosayweallonline.com/event/veterans-creative-arts-expo Good crowd. Fascinating and wonderful veteran art. Tacos! And always happy to rep So Say We All’s Incoming Veteran writers’ program. They mean a lot to me. Will try to get some pictures/video of the event.
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Podcast-Incoming
I was at a Padres game when Justin Hudnall, Executive Director of So Say We All, and editor of the “Incoming” series of veteran writing anthologies and podcasts texted me to say, “You’re going to be on the radio tonight!” So I couldn’t listen live. I anticipated about ten minutes of the program’s hour would… Read more
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The Fitzgerald’s Watch Team Could Have Been Mine
https://taskandpurpose.com/fitzgeralds-watch-team-mine On my ToDo list is to submit an update to this piece: https://taskandpurpose.com/fitzgeralds-watch-team-mine I was so excited to have T&P select it for publication. And I was nervous about what my fellow naval officers might say about it. It generated quite the online discussion, most of it supportive. An update is due because since… Read more
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The Urchins and the Demon
This was my first real publishing success. The USO’s magazine, On Patrol, published one of the first things I had written about my tour in Afghanistan. Find it online here: http://www.uso.org/stories/236-the-little-men-of-afghanistan Unfortunately, the wonderful pictures that came with the article seem to be currently broken on their website. I’ve written their webmaster about that. Here’s… Read more
