InGlobetrottersbyA.R. Jacobs·Oct 25Why I Smiled My Way Through a Deadly Uprising in BangkokTrying not to notice those little bags of gasoline lining the curbA response icon8A response icon8
Kevin Tung·Oct 23Our 152 kB Table Grew to 29 MB. The Culprit Was a Session Doing Nothing.Vacuum kept running and removed nothing. One idle transaction pinned the cleanup horizon, and the table stayed bloated after it left.
1manfund·Oct 8CheetahThis battle was old school human-wave. How do I know? I’ve read one too many War novels. I was not one for the Army. I was one of the…
Words Not yet Spoken·Sep 29The Library of Lost Memories by Augusta AugustusStory inspired by the Vietnamese war.
Jerry Glazer·Sep 8THE “THING” THAT KEPT MARINES ALIVEIt looked like some Walter Mitty contraption: a war machine put together by the Gadgetman, a haphazard MacGyver build, or something made by…
Jerry Glazer·Sep 5THE SCARS VIETNAM LEFT BEHINDThe U.S. military adopted a scorched-earth policy to cut the supply lines of the Viet Cong. They torched villages, destroyed crops, and…A response icon1A response icon1
Jerry Glazer·Sep 4HERCULES: THE MAN WHO MADE US LAUGH IN HELLHercules was a tall, dark Mexican-American. He was the strongest of my team, toting an M-60 machine gun with two chain links of ammo strung…
Jerry Glazer·Sep 2WHEN SURVIVAL BECOMES THE ONLY ANSWERI can visualize an instant frozen in time, a small, tense piece of a larger story. The men in that photo are on the edge, standing between…
Jerry Glazer·Sep 1VIETNAM CHANGED US, BUT IT NEVER CHANGED OUR LOVE FOR AMERICAI’ll tell you this: the war changed my buddies and me. There was no going back to those young men who first set foot in Vietnam. The war…
Jerry Glazer·Aug 29THE WAR ENDED. OUR BATTLE DIDN’TWhen our tour in Vietnam was over, the places we stood, the weapons we carried, and the battles we fought, won, and lost didn’t matter…
