Fifty-three years had passed since the surviving crewmen of S-235 had all been together. Plans were laid over many months to make the much-anticipated event happen. Over the intervening years, they had each recalled numerous events that had melded them into a hospitable, well-oiled machine in which every member fulfilled his expected role in amiable comradeship with the others. Now they longed to be reunited for potentially one last time. German Schnellboot, World War II Not everyone who had...

At midnight tonight, July 2026 will be history. In only two or three weeks, kids will be dragging, or skipping, according to their outlook, off to school again. My! Where has the summer gone?! On the bright side, it's National Mutt Day. Most of the dogs we had when I was a kid were pure-bred Spitz, but there was always a litter or two of mutts. Mutt But in many ways mutts are the best. No highfalutin pretensions. What you saw was what you got. They loved us (provided we kept them fed and...

Time has a way of changing one's thinking and perspective on many issues of life. For instance, marriage. That six-year-old sage "l'll never get married," I said to Mother when I was a six-year-old sage. Mother was too important to me. She just smiled. "I'll never marry," I said as a high school know-it-all. Running track and tracking the Atlanta Braves (as bad as they were at the time) kept me too busy for that. Those were my prime interests. "If I ever marry, it'll never be to a girl from...