Month: May 2014

American Hero: Tuskegee Airman Col. Charles McGee

(Photo: Col. Charles McGee and me) It was my great honor to meet an American hero this weekend. While traveling in Missouri, I visited my brother Richard, a retired Sergeant Major in the Missouri National Guard who also holds the honor/duty/burden of being the parade boss for Columbia’s Memorial Day Parade. As part of Memorial Day weekend festivities, the city also hosted the two-day Salute to Veterans Air Show at Columbia Regional Airport. Friday evening, Rich took me along to the pre-air show dinner (can you really call it a banquet when everyone’s wearing coveralls?) and introduced me to several of the honorees, including one of the surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Col. Charles McGee (Retired). To find out more about Col. McGee, check out his bio. I also had the…

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“There are very few books that I cannot put down. This was one.”

Book Review “A Real Jewel” lisatompkins I bought this book independently,  Brambleman  by Jonathan Grant is my first review.  While I read this book purely for pleasure, I enjoy well-researched historical fiction, and this was superb. A large story, funny, sad, surprising, truthful, important, and most entertaining,  “Brambleman” takes issue with pervasive, decades-old injustice in the South. Mr. Grant writes from the heart; he takes a side that he believes in, and very probably lives.  His  Brambleman  Facebook page is a gem,  and assists the reader to continue to feel in touch with both the world created in the book,  and the ongoing battle to do what is right. There was a point, about three-quarters of the way through, when everything seemed to…

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