THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter I

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter I

Los Alamos, New Mexico is about a three-hour drive down to Albuquerque. My wife and I, after a delivery meeting at the labs, had taken the potassium Iodide tablets Dr. Hans Bethe had instructed us to consume and were prepared to take the rest of the pills in the...
The Badly Needed Emetic, From the Wilderness

The Badly Needed Emetic, From the Wilderness

The Badly Needed Emetic By James Strauss   Most people don’t know that Ipecac can’t be purchased over the counter in the United States anymore. That syrup was plentiful for most of my life, as it was used as something that was ingested, usually by a child, that...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXIV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXIV

I lay in bed, my body wanting to fall into a restful and restorative sleep, but my mind was having none of that. In closing my eyes, I wasn’t taken back into combat, which happened only rarely and never when I was so tired. No, it was Gularte’s words about a possible...
From The Wilderness, Article One Hundred-Two

From The Wilderness, Article One Hundred-Two

FROM THE WILDERNESS Newsreel By James Strauss   Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have made a ten part series about the Vietnam War, and it’s been making headlines for its truthful veracity.  These two “Hollywood-style” historians present that war, as they have presented...

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