Claude's Ventures

April 30, 2009
It’s been one hectic week in Indianapolis.
The members of the 46th Military History Detachment are racing to prepare for our mobilization to Camp Shelby, Miss., and subsequently to Afghanistan. Packing equipment, finishing paperwork and completing last minute personal things has been the order of the week.
Equipment movement has been involved [...]

April 29, 2009
Last week I got an email from my friend who seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth. I wasn’t sure if was because he was afraid I would take him to another Celtic rock concert where I would drag him into the mosh pit. Maybe it was just timing because [...]

April 26, 2009
To Jennie
Good-bye! a kind good-bye,
I bid you now, my friend,
And though ’tis sad to speak the word,
To destiny I bend
And though it be decreed by Fate
That we ne’er meet again,
Your image, graven on my heart,
Forever shall remain.
Aye, in my heart thoult have a place,
Among the friends held dear,-
Nor shall the hand of Time [...]

April 26, 2009
I’m having a bad day. Don’t talk to me. This really sucks.
Sunday I was in a real black mood. I didn’t really want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to stew alone.
I just got back from Washington, D.C., via New York. My parents were driving me to Indianapolis later that afternoon. Spent [...]

April 22, 2009
The soldiers of the 46th Military Detachment gathered at U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for some refresher training and to get an overview of Afghanistan.
Bill Epley, Branch Chief of Field & International Programs at CMH, guided us along the two days of orientation. The U.S. [...]