woody's world

Effie in the Middle with Greta and Yuyu on either side. Young Matt Search in lap. And that (story about Corky below) reminds me of another a...

Korea 4 June 1951. Corky Wray jumped with his 5th Ranger Company buddies into North Korea and was killed not long after hitting the ground. ...

While I was looking around for an image for the post that follows this I stumbled on the website of a really incredible photographer. His na...

We were looking for a place to have a quiet hike, and turned into Cobscook Bay State Park, an out of the way place in Northern Maine. The pa...

If's an illusion. “If only time would trickle slow Like rain that melts the falling snow If only Lord, if only.” (1) I have been readin...

We went out the day before to find sign and places to wait in ambush. We found plenty of rooting on the edge of a dry swamp, and I found a ...

And don’t forget Bobby, and Edgar, and Malcolm and all the rest. (Some might even put all of our military dead in with these martyrs.) I hea...

The Impact Trickles Out Restrict access to abortion, reduce broadness of social safety net (reduce food stamps, rent subsidies and access t...

Science: fixed truth such as the Law of Gravity which states that if you jump off a cliff without restraint or some lift mechanism, you will...

Here is a tale of a kind of courage. Courage comes in many forms, and I saw one the other morning. Sometime in the past this man had his en...