by Judson I Stone | Oct 19, 2016 | Testimonials
Testimonials Please share your impressions of A Last Chapter of the Greatest Generation. Ask a question about something in the book. Share a story about your service as a veteran or about a loved one in the comments section...
by Judson I Stone | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog
I love using the One Word method of entering and traveling through a new year. I like because it simplifies the process of making new year commitments. I make one commitment instead of three or four resolutions. Simplicity can mean easy for some people. Easy is...
by Judson I Stone | Dec 17, 2024 | Blog
“Orders to move at 11… Set out. Hot. Packs like lead down the same side of river. Many fell out. Lunch on way. Toward Toul… Stayed at night at barracks built in 1904… Up awful hill to get there. Good beds. Canned supper by moonlight. Bathed feet. Good...
by Judson I Stone | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog
Matthew 1-2 My wife and I watched the new movie The Best Christian Pageant Ever. The humor, suspense, and resolution reminded me of the reason for the season—Jesus’ birth is for everyone, even the marginalized. The movie showed me the danger of self-righteousness and...
by Judson I Stone | Oct 15, 2024 | Blog
Do you read poetry? I do sometimes. Do you write poems? I do sometimes. Many of my poems originated in my daily Bible reading. The following poem is one such example based on two verses in the last book of the New Testament: “To him who loves us and has freed us from...
by Judson I Stone | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog
Have you been told to write what you saw and heard and then not to write something you heard? There are many references to writing in the last book of the New Testament. Jesus Christ told John to write what he saw and heard, but later a voice from heaven told him not...
by Judson I Stone | Aug 13, 2024 | Blog
Apologies are big news, especially the one in regard to a segment of the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony. Most of my readers watched or heard about the parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper. The French organizing committee scrabbled to do damage...
by Judson I Stone | Jul 15, 2024 | Blog
Americans have a history of struggling with prejudice. The recent protests over the war between Hamas and Israel illustrate this. Modern perspectives about prejudice are quite different than those held by our founding fathers at the time they adopted and signed our...
by Judson I Stone | Jun 11, 2024 | Blog
Death and grief happen in this life. They visit everyone some time. I am working on a biography of a great uncle. Death showed up when he served with the 51st Pioneer Infantry Regiment in 1918-1919. Members of Company B died with most deaths due to influenza and not...
by Judson I Stone | May 13, 2024 | Blog
Many people are familiar with the phrase ‘connecting the dots.’ It refers to a game, but it is also used to describe the linking of events, people, and outcomes in life. Steve Jobs, in his Stanford University commencement speech, Connecting the Dots, said, “You cannot...
by Judson I Stone | Apr 8, 2024 | Blog
As a new Florida state prison volunteer, I had questions. The volunteer training, however, taught me not to ask an incarcerated man questions about the crime (s) he committed. This raised another question for me. Why am I not supposed to ask an incarcerated man those...
