Courage – Part 2

In my last post I ended with a video of Deborah Cordner Carson from the 2012 CrossFit Games. Carson is seen crying at confronting an ocean swim. Carson is extraordinarily fit, probably in the top 1% of women on the planet by most metrics, and last year was DQ’d...

Courage – Part I

I thought this was going to be one post, but not so. This is going to take a few parts to get all the way through. When I was a young Lieutenant – and even before that at Officer Candidate School – we learned the acronym for the Marine Corps’ 14...

2012 CrossFit Games

In the summer of 2007, I was a year-and-a-half into my journey with CrossFit. When Coach Glassman and the main page announced slots for the 1st CrossFit Games to be held in Aromas, CA, I checked my schedule and saw that I was going to be on the west coast for a court...

The Greatest Gift – Last

So I started part I of this argument with the claim that the British heritage of the Rule of Law – and the respect with which it has been embraced and even refined in the United States – is the single greatest legacy and gift to mankind ever. Of course, to...

The Greatest Gift – Part 2

My arrival in Afghanistan coincided with both the 3rd anniversary of the World Trade Center attack and the upcoming Afghan elections in the fall of 2004. What I knew of Afgnanistan prior to finding out I was being deployed there could have fit into a thimble…...