Category Archives: Heroes

Thinking about this last Guy Fawkes Day

Posted on November 5, 2012 by SamuraiMarine

  I originally planned to post this on Guy Fawkes Day, but life got in the way and it did not happen. Before you comment on this post with the obligatory explanations of what GFD is really about, I need … Continue reading →


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Ten Years Later

Posted on September 11, 2011 by SamuraiMarine

  Can you believe that is has been ten years already? So much has happened in that time, and yet it still seems like it was not that long ago.  Children have been born or become adults, growing up with … Continue reading →


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Heroes Month – Maj. James F Baier (USMC)

Posted on April 7, 2010 by SamuraiMarine

When I was young, my mother started working for the Department of Health and Human services here in our home town of Bakersfield, Ca.  We had spent a couple years on Welfare when we moved to Bakersfield, but we actually … Continue reading →


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Heroes Month – Carl Sagan

Posted on April 3, 2010 by SamuraiMarine

Let’s start the month out with a bang.  Or, as may be the case here, a BIG BANG. Aside from seeing the occasional image of this goofy looking man with the big ears and bad hair standing next to various … Continue reading →


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