Hap's Corner

THE CEMETARY GUN…   I was doing a little on line research for a prominent departed military shooter’s biography and typed “Arlington” into my search engine with the intent of checking what might be said about him on the Arlington National Cemetery website. Much to my surprise what came up first in the queue was Arlington Cemetery...

NOW THERE IS BEING LUCKY AND THERE IS BEING LUCKY…   One of the definitions of things that happen to us which are out of our control is luck. Luck can be good and luck can be bad.   There are some people for whom it might be said that they are both. For example let us look at...

SHOOTERS AND THE SEARCH FOR THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE…   When I was a working man I earned my daily bread, and my ammunition money, as a high school science teacher. One thing that seemed to be a reoccurring theme, when teaching general science to ninth graders, was that there was always a great confusion in their young...

Gunpowder or Gruyère, It is all the same…   Late one recent autumn afternoon the family was gathered to quietly celebrate the 85th birthday of our patriarch, Uncle Frank, when an explosion startled us, rattled the windows, knocked a few pictures askew, and otherwise disturbed the relaxed atmosphere. One of our politically well connected relatives whipped out...

A QUARTERING WIND… I was desperate to get out of the infantry. It is not that I ever been to the field in the ten years I was a member of “The Queen of Battle.” I had been attached to Company C, 1st Battalion, 169th Infantry in Middletown, Connecticut-the famous “Middletown Charlie for administrative purposes and...