2008 Best of Kansas City

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The Soviet Army and Navy Day

This year marks the twenty-year anniversary of the triumphant end of my military service. Shortly after my long-awaited discharge from the Engineer Corps in June of 1990, the American Secret Services sensed a weak spot in the pontoon troops where I had served and used it to break up the Soviet Union. Of course, it [...]

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Happy New Year!

Odessa, Ukraine. 1973

When I was growing up©, I used to calculate how old I will be in the year 2000. This was my Mayan Calendar of sorts — the year 2000 was so far away and the double-digit age of 31 seemed so unbelievably huge that I didn’t bother to look beyond the year [...]