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This Veterans Day
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Returning The Favor: Pin-Ups For Vets
This week’s favor has been returned
Returning The Favor: The Snake Hunter
We try on Returning The Favor to highlight a variety of ways to combat PTSD.
Returning The Favor: A Big Guy with a Big Heart
This weeks bloody go-gooder, for your consideration. He’s a big man
Say hello to Gregory “Doc” Dubay.
Doc served as a medic in the Army.
Returning The Favor: Saving Our Veterans
First episode of Season 3
Returning The Favor: Veterans Helping Veterans
It’s 100 degrees today in Coeur D Alene, Idaho, where I currently find myself. Six months ago, however, on Returning the Favor, it was snowing in upstate New York. Thus, I’m sweating my butt off, as I watch myself tramp through a snow covered field in this weeks episode. Care to join me? Mike’s Facebook Page
For Gallantry in Action
My Mom wrote this six years ago, after my Dad discovered their 90-year old neighbor was a war hero who fought at Iwo Jima. The story wound up in the Baltimore Sun. I’m posting it today because soon, all our WWII veterans will be gone, just like the man my mother honored six years ago. But also, because I know with certainty, that somewhere on this Memorial Day, someone over 90 years of age – someone who did something heroic at a time when our country was in dire need of heroes – is sitting alone with their memories. Memories Read More
On Veterans Day Spend a Few Minutes with Travis Mills
Tomorrow is Veterans Day,
Returning The Favor Honored by Got Your 6
It’s always nice to work on a show that people like
Delayed in Albuquerque
So I’m in the airport, marveling at my ability to book yet another delayed flight
Off The Wall: Should All Veterans Be Thanked on Memorial Day?
I’m very curious what you think of the argument about thanking ‘all’ Veterans during this holiday?
OFF THE WALL: Fleet Week
Hey Mike, I see that you are now publicly supporting the annual nightmare of San Francisco’s Fleet Week.
Mike’s Experience With Travis Mills
Say hi to Retired Staff Sargent Travis Mills, formerly of the 82nd Airborne, US Army. As you can see, Travis has undergone a few structural modifications, most visibly in the leg department. Likewise, his left arm is more machine than flesh, and though his right arm appears to be around my waist, it really isn’t. Like the rest of his limbs, it’s been missing in action for some time. I met Travis a few weeks ago in DC at The Science and Engineering Festival, and spent a half hour talking, mostly about Dirty Jobs. He wanted to tell me how Read More