Category: Hot Trigger
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May 30, 2007
Sangin, Helmand province, near the Kajaki Dam…one Chinook helicopter is shot down, supposedly by multiple rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). I was there, 30K+ feet above it all. We moved to assist the recovery operations. The helicopter had been on fire when it crashed so there were definitely no survivors. Then there was an ambush on the…
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Unpopular Opinion
I saw Dear Evan Hansen last Saturday. I knew it won a bunch of Tony Awards. I knew it was well loved and very popular. And I did not like it. I loved parts of it, I must admit. There were some great songs. The acting was really good but the characters weren’t as developed…
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Daily Prompt 5/10/23
(I started this 6 days ago and never got back to it. I am going to keep the original date.) I decided to just go in order of the prompts I’ve already used. I thought this one would be so easy but as I sit here thinking, I realized that it’s not. There’s a lot…
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Bad Blogger!
I have felt myself fading from blogging the past few days. I’m not even sure how long it’s been. One day? Two days? After my January break from blogging, I wanted to be consistent. I love stats and metrics, so I love when I see that I’m on some super long streak. But at the…
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Never ending levels of learning
It seems like every time I start to research something I already know a little bit about, I find out something else that I don’t think I ever knew and it blows my mind. Today’s example…My wife works at a museum in a state that is not part of the original 13 colonies. 250 year…
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Daily Prompt 4/27/23
Absolutely, 100% yes I do. But it wasn’t always like that. I used to think that my vote didn’t matter. As a blue in a big blue state, or a lone blue in very red state or area, it just never seemed like it mattered. It was also really complicated because on some issues, I…
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Manifestation of Stress
Things here are still stressful. People are still who they’ve always been. And I am just trying to hold it all together. But my body is showing me that it remembers the past traumas and pain. It remembers what it’s like to spend all of its energy on just staying alive. Suddenly my appetite changes…
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Surviving
This situation is hard. But I am doing ok. I am frustrated but not freaking out. My body remembers the physical fear I used to feel. Sudden movements find me on edge often. I am annoyed, but not revealing anything about how I feel. Parents #2 texted my wife and I last night, thanking us…
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Daily Prompt 4/7/23
In high school I learned not to trust myself or anyone else. I learned that people are mean just to be mean and that who your friends are, what you wear, and how you look is way more important than what is on the inside. I learned that putting a large group of 14-18 year…
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The Transformed Wife
Sometimes I have this strange draw to read things I know will infuriate me. This woman is one of those people that creates nothing but annoying content. She is focused on “biblical womanhood”, which is a result of her misunderstanding and cherrypicking of bible verses. She is all about complete and total submission of woman,…