Christmas on the Front Lines: The Normal Present, And What Normal Costs…
The cold sat with them like an old debt, unpaid and unspoken, while Christmas passed quietly somewhere far enough away to feel almost merciful.
Tegan Broadwater
Battlefield Brothers and Broken Trust: When Forgiveness Is Just Surrender
Forgiveness without accountability isn’t grace at all; it’s the quiet surrender of your dignity to someone who never earned the right to receive it.
Jimi Hendrix Was a Paratrooper: What the 101st Taught a Guitar Legend About Mastery
Reflecting on how Jimi Hendrix’s time as a 101st Airborne paratrooper instilled in him the discipline, fear management, and humility that later fueled his relentless pursuit of musical mastery and redefined what a guitar could do.
DJ-T and the Presidential Playlist: What Music Reveals About Leadership Style
In the end, the tracks we queue up when the pressure hits say as much about how we lead as any memo, briefing, or stump speech.
The Jukebox: The War We Brought Home
Every time Slot 184 spins to life, it is not nostalgia, it is a roll call, a way of saying Jake Chen is still here and we are still listening.
The Jukebox: Psychological Operations (PSYOP) and The Dogman
Some people spend their lives chasing ghosts; I just needed to hear one more song to realize mine had been singing to me all along.
The Jukebox: Delta Force Remembrances – Wish You Were Here
In a quiet bar where ghosts keep their own rhythm, Cordova’s three plays of “Wish You Were Here” turn grief into a kind of communion for the living.
The Jukebox: A “Fortunate Son” Goes to to Vietnam
The ghosts in McGarvey’s weren’t haunting the bar—they were teaching the living how to remember without breaking.
The Jukebox: Simple Men and Complicated Wars
Some men come home from war with medals, others with ghosts—but every one of them is still trying to be a simple man in a world that forgot how.
The Jukebox: A Wurlitzer of War Stories Lives in a Fayetteville Dive Bar
In McGarvey’s, the jukebox glowed like a field altar, each slot a dog tag on a guitar string, and Marcus realized the living keep the dead in tune.
