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It took 30+ years for my wife to figure out why I didn’t enjoy my time in the Navy. It took me just as long. After nearly not graduating high school in 1982, I did a six month program to learn how to be a dental laboratory technician. That field attracted me because...
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Growing up, one of the most distressing announcements I would hear would be from my dad. “Tonight, we are having a family meeting.” My brother and I knew what this meant. No doubt there was some new rules we’d have to follow because of one of us screwing up. The...
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“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing–these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common...
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As long as I can remember, I’ve been a boxing fan. When I was a kid, my dad got a set of boxing gloves for me. He wanted to teach me how to defend myself. We would spar as he showed me how to jab and hook. I learned well. I never lost a fight growing up, but I...
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In early 1997, I knew I was getting out of the Navy. A few months earlier, I nearly took a swing at my boss which was the inspiration to start a career building and developing managers. I volunteered to teach in the Command’s Total Quality Leadership (TQL) program...
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I’m a huge fan of documentaries. Growing up I loved Victory at Sea and The World at War. Now I often find myself watching documentaries on PBS or Netflix. What makes a good documentary, or a story, is a good narrator. If you were to have a documentary made about...
