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Theodore Roosevelt NP to St. Paul

From TRNP I went to Bismarck to visit Herb Wilson,  a member of Veterans For Peace and WW2 navigator who flew thirty missions over Germany.  He is one of the chosen few as only one in five completed their...

True Story of Viet Nam

Hi Friends,   I will tell a true story but an anonymous one. My friend was drafted into the infantry in the late 60s and deployed to Viet Nam.  He had grown up in a small and simple town in Texas and had...

Pompey’s Pillar to Teddy Roosevelt NP

Driving down the interstate, my lunch is a can of kidney beans in my solar cooker…the dashboard.  I will sleep this evening in an undesignate campsite off the road,  probably in national forest and...

Montana VFP and Glacier

Hi Friends, I am in Colombia Falls, just leaving Glacier National Park.    It is a stunning place and better I think than Yosemite or Yellowstone.   The Empire Builder AMTRAK passes through the park and...

Retrospective on Bob Potter

I met Bob Potter at a lecture at UCSB.  Daniel Ellsberg,  a member of Veterans For Peace was speaking.  Bob was there handing out invitations to the dedication of a peace park in Isla Vista and I was trying...

Idaho and the Salmon River

I can easily see why folks from Idaho are not impressed with Yosemite! Coming into Stanley I passed many meadows as high and lush as Tuolomne Meadows  and the Sawtooth Range is every bit as dramatic as the...
Adagio for Bob Potter

Adagio for Bob Potter

Adagio for Bob Potter, VFP Chapter 54 Vice President I was talking to my neighbor He said, “When I get to heaven, if it’s not like this, I’ll just hop a cloud and I’m coming right back...
Three Thousand Deaths: A Poem by Bob Potter

Three Thousand Deaths: A Poem by Bob Potter

Three Thousand Deaths Exactly three thousand white crosses Symmetrically fixed in rows of forty-eight Aligned at attention across a sandy beach Vastly understate the reality. Fleeting symbols of a Sunday...

Yosemite and Sequoia, DU and Homeless Vets outreach

I’m at Mono Lake just now, having come down from three days at Tuolomne Meadows. I’m on my way to the Veterans For Peace convention in Portland, Maine to present a workshop on ending homelessness...

Success housing homeless vets

Recommended site: http://www.smmirror.com/#mode=single&view=18561 another story: latimes.com/ news/local/ la-me-homeless- vets-20100629, 0,754255. story   VA commits $20 million to convert West L.A....
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