Fairfax, VA, USA. Surely you have been tempted by the call of a Bucket List. Perhaps you even made one for yourself, despite the fear it will become the proverbial bucket of spit.

They are the contemporary Cat’s Meow. So why not make one? I can be as truly intellectual as the next person, up to the challenge, consumed with thoughts about my impending mortality.

Fairfax, VA, USA. We have been at war for as long as I have been alive. I have high school classmates, some of whom I knew in elementary school, who did not make it back from Viet Nam.

I have relatives who fought and died or were injured in World War II. My father fought in China, my uncles in Europe, my cousin in the Pacific for the Navy. The Fifth Column killed a relative after the war had officially ended.