Technicat

Topic

War

A collection of 4 issues

Faith of My Fathers

I wrote this shortly before he passed away. It’s been a while since I read that John McCain's autobiography, but what stuck with me was his capture, imprisonment and torture for over five years during the Vietnam war and his refusal to be released for PR purposes before his

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam

A while ago, I checked out the local Dave and Buster’s (it’s a happening place on Friday night, like Chuck E Cheese with a bar), and I was reminded of the Epinions meet ‘n greet they held at the Irvine Spectrum Dave and Buster’s oh so long

How to Hide an Empire

In a bit of karmic retribution for all that personal pandemic overspending on consumer appliances, I'm now TV-less after my robot vacuum knocked over my 4K LG TV (seems there should be market for anti-robot-vacuum defenses). It was just as well, my sporadic monthly netflix subscription expired the day before,

We Were Soldiers

We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang — The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam is one of the most memorable war books I’ve read (up there with Band of Brothers). I had already watched the film starring Mel Gibson and enjoyed it, but that didn’t prepare