The Chinese offensive pushed the American and South Korean forces into a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. They killed hundreds of thousands of South Koreans and only American naval superiority allowed the UN to evacuate two hundred thousand soldiers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There aren’t a lot of bands with flutes and trumpets. Guitars though? Those are big in bands. So I taught Julie and Alex to play guitar. Don’t get me wrong. They knew how to strum a guitar before we got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fringe elements of society will always be with us. There are some people who will always see, act, and be different. Some will never be able to conform. Some of them will always be able to interact with society, deal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mainland China had fallen to the socialists by the time of the Korean War and they had an impressive army. They had minimal training but decades of experience in the long Chinese Civil War. They’d taken hideous losses against the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Julie and Alex taught me to read music, to study in school, and so much more. And in return I taught them how to play by ear. I taught them to break the rules, in music and in the rest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The early twenty-first century saw a generational change in electronic technologies. The widespread use of mobile computing and communications devices. The merging of the two. The new technologies connected people around the world like never before. But it was not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Wolfenheim Project was a dream given form. Her mission to establish a new colony farther out than any Earth had ever sent. To tell the aliens that we would never stop coming. To show them that we would never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The invasion of South Korea became the new United Nations’ first test. Formed by the Allied powers after World War II in order to support democracy and keep another world war from happening, the United Nations quickly voted to send[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Julie and Alex realized I couldn’t read the music, they decided it was high time to teach me. And for one of the first times in my life I found that I wanted to learn something. The things guys[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As virtual worlds became more widespread, some gamers began to attack newcomers, saying that they weren’t real gamers. Almost all virtual worlds were games back then after all. Interactive novels were the stuff of science fiction back then. Glasses were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…