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May | 2005 | johndeniston.com
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Archive for May, 2005. Diving Into The Blue. May 16, 2005 at 4:44 pm · Filed under Life Unlimited. In twelve hours, my world will be rocked. As I won’t be permitted to touch a phone or computer, mail would be most welcome:. Cadet Deniston, John, D. AFROTC FTU 1, FLT L. Ellsworth AFB, SD 57706-4609. The only mail restrictions: no food, no mail sent after 11 June, and please, nothing with an Army or Navy logo on it. I can only do so many push-ups. So sink or swim, I’m diving in. The Marriage Bug Has Bitten.
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June | 2005 | johndeniston.com
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Archive for June, 2005. The Truth About Preemption, Unilateralism & Hegemony. June 29, 2005 at 6:20 pm · Filed under Reading Responses. An afternoon of relaxation spent at the Rockbridge Regional Library here in Lexington, VA led me to stumble across an outstanding 120-page read: John Lewis Gaddis’. Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. As is my habit, I’ve funneled a few particularly insightful thoughts from the book into the space below. I apologize if some of the excerpts below ar...There h...
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Trick-or-Treating As A Traveller. November 1, 2005 at 9:31 pm · Filed under Travel. And by all indications, she couldn’t have pursued a better opportunity. Downtown LA 11 PM a city bus Halloween = a freak show of epic proportions. And that’s all I have to say about that. 1 Comment ». Wrote @ November 5, 2005 at 10:48 pm. Aw, come one, John. Now I gotta know what kind of stuff you saw that night. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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June 6, 2006 at 12:06 am · Filed under Reading Responses. I’ve been reading Nathaniel Fick’s One Bullet Away (reviews pricing), an engaging memoir tracing the life of a Marine Force Recon officer from the recruiting station through tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Buried deep in the combat narrative is a short passage worth highlighting in a time when the only headlines from the frontlines seem to reflect a search for collateral damage:. No comments yet ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Archive for September, 2005. Sleepovers Under Burning Skies. September 30, 2005 at 6:18 am · Filed under Travel. Here in A36, we’ve got company tonight: Seaver-alum Micah Kafka. Is staying over while we wait to see if his place and the others among the sprawling suburbs 10 miles north of Malibu survive the day-old wildfire currently consuming some of the more beautiful parts of SoCal. More photos available on Micah’s blog. September 30, 2005 at 5:27 am · Filed under Life Unlimited. Though I’d been ...
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Archive for December, 2005. Make It Five and a Subcontinent. December 20, 2005 at 11:16 pm · Filed under Travel. Making it to the safety and serenity of an airline seat has never been a more joyful moment. And so, though the opportunity to dive into an entirely alien world for a few days is one I will not soon forget, I’ve never been so content with normal. Make It Five and a Subcontinent. Trick-or-Treating As A Traveller. Sleepovers Under Burning Skies. Stay tuned. Best is yet to come. People In My World.
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Archive for August, 2005. A View From The Tip Of The Spear. August 15, 2005 at 8:11 am · Filed under Travel. After sixteen hours in coach class and my fill of humus and metal detectors, I’ve returned home from two weeks in Israel studying counter-terrorism with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. FDD) In short, this was the most undersold experience of my millennium, thus far. The Powers Of Peppers Re-Unite:. With Kevin Mills and Chris Stieber. More photos available in the gallery.
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Archive for July, 2005. Life In A Sorority House. July 30, 2005 at 5:35 am · Filed under Life Unlimited. As has been previously mentioned in this space, this summer’s quest for gainful employment took me to a rather unexpected nook of this great country: Lexington, Virginia. All in all, a summer well spent. Together, we’ll spend two weeks in the field and in the classroom learning the theory and practice of counter-terrorism in a free society. It should be quite an experience. Of Fear, Freedom & Futures.
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Make It Five and a Subcontinent. December 20, 2005 at 11:16 pm · Filed under Travel. Making it to the safety and serenity of an airline seat has never been a more joyful moment. The intensity of India hit me in my first breath stepping off the plane. The stuffy, fume-filled air of the jetbridge initially made me worry something had been wrong with our aircraft, but stepping inside the terminal and looking across an entire room of this haze made me realize that such air quality was normal. Make It Five an...
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