Through the storm we reach the shore You give it all but I want more And I'm waiting for you With or without you... From U2, 1987 37 Sailors Died at Sea On May 17, 1987, 37 U.S. Sailors died when their ship was attacked by the Iraqis. Another and 21 were injured. The...
Imagine holding civilians at bay, when every last fiber of your being wants to bring them with you...Peter W. Owens, Marine Poems on the Fall of Saigon I joked recently that I was going to make a list of my favorite things in Oklahoma City's Asian District with Taco...
You can hide 'neath your covers And study your pain Make crosses from your lovers Throw roses in the rain Waste your summer praying in vain For a savior to rise from these streets... Sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road... --From Springsteen and Thunder Road This post...
1985 USSR, originally uploaded by Roman on flickr. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." -- From Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov Fall of the Soviet Union I've been meaning to write about the 20th anniversary of the...
I discovered a new blog today dedicated to Generation X's most beloved alien, E.T. This Is Your Alien publishes on Tumblr and features vintage pictures of the extra-terrestrial. The Tumblr features a few dozen Gen Xers in E.T. Halloween costumes or devouring E.T....
January 28, 2011, is the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Generational experts theorize that this event significantly influenced the distrust Generation X has for large institutions. If you were born between 1961 and 1981, leading...
Where were you on January 28, 1986? That was the day seven astronauts including school teacher, Christa McAuliffe, were lost in a catastrophic explosion aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was a defining moment for Generation X, and unbelievably, it's been 25...
It's been 14 years since the Oklahoma City Bombing. Here are some pictures I took the other day. Oh, it seemed like a holy place, Protected by amazing grace And we would sing right out loud The things we could not say... --From Sad Cafe by the Eagles