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Published in Letters to my Boys

·Apr 27

Uncle Matt at Two-Score and Ten

You are extremely fortunate to have many good men in your life. One of those men crossed the semi-centennial mark today. Uncle Matt is 50 years old. That merits a moment of honor. Now there is a tension in the Stowell family. As a rule, we celebrate achievement and good…

Family

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Uncle Matt at Two-Score and Ten
Uncle Matt at Two-Score and Ten

Published in My Public Affairs

·Apr 14

DJ Lance and the After Action Review

The following was first published on Blogger in 2011 DJ Lance would make a nifty Soldier. If you don’t know who he is, you are missing out on one of the most captivating and entertaining characters on all of Nick Jr. I was watching “Yo Gabba Gabba!” with my brother-in-law…

Army

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DJ Lance and the After Action Review
DJ Lance and the After Action Review

Published in My Public Affairs

·Mar 7

Great Leaders Protect their Teams; and… What Is Bulgogi?

One of the best leaders I have had commanded the public affairs unit I served in for nearly ten years. This is a story about how she focused on what was important and blocked out the nonsense, even when it rained down heavily from her superiors. We were participating in…

Korea

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Great Leaders Protect their Teams; and… What Is Bulgogi?
Great Leaders Protect their Teams; and… What Is Bulgogi?

Published in My Public Affairs

·Feb 28

Embracing the Suck: Depression and Deployment

This post was originally published in 2014 on Blogger. Why are combat deployments so depressing? You’re talking to an expert, not because I am severely depressed (this post is not a “cry for help,”) nor because I have extensive psychological training, though I did sleep in a military barracks last…

Army

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Embracing the Suck: Depression and Deployment
Embracing the Suck: Depression and Deployment

Published in They Call Us Saints

·Dec 29, 2021

Be the Light

December 2022 — Researchers recently created a light one billion times brighter than the sun. Imagine the light that God can produce! In a lab at the University of Nebraska, these scientists built the brightest ever laser beam. They found that the light shining on an object actually changes its appearance. Ultra-high energy…

Latter Day Saints

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Be the Light
Be the Light

Published in They Call Us Saints

·Sep 5, 2021

Get to Worship

September 2021 — Temples We often speak of temple “work.” We build temples to perform sacred rites for those who have died. Temple ordinances were revealed to man in these last days as part of Elijah’s promised return. Elijah held the sealing keys and conferred them to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the…

Lds Temple

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Get to Worship
Get to Worship

Published in My Public Affairs

·Sep 3, 2021

The Long Road Home from Afghanistan

Note: This piece first appeared in My Public Affairs on Blogger in December 2014. As we stacked hundreds of duffel bags and ruck sacks on the driveway just off Doughboy Loop, I remembered pretty vividly a group of Soldiers doing the same thing seven months earlier. At that time, we…

Afghanistan

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The Long Road Home from Afghanistan
The Long Road Home from Afghanistan

Published in My Public Affairs

·Aug 31, 2021

Is America Wasting Blood and Treasure in Afghanistan?

Note: This piece first appeared in My Public Affairs on Blogger in August 2014. Some are fond of calling it a “boondoggle.” Others call it “meddling.” Those are the charitable descriptors. A sizable faction refers to our Afghanistan intervention as an “invasion,” and “occupation,” and the worst kind of neo-colonialism. …

Afghanistan

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Is America Wasting Blood and Treasure in Afghanistan?
Is America Wasting Blood and Treasure in Afghanistan?

Published in My Public Affairs

·Aug 31, 2021

The Taliban’s Last Stand

Note: This piece first appeared in My Public Affairs on Blogger in June 2014. Just more than seven years later it is back in the Taliban’s hands. There is a very curious building here at KAF. On official maps of the installation, it is labeled “TLS.” Taliban’s Last Stand, is…

Afghanistan

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The Taliban’s Last Stand
The Taliban’s Last Stand

Published in They Call Us Saints

·Aug 15, 2021

Share the News

August 2020 — News travels fast. Sharing news comes as naturally to us as smiling. In a recent psychology study, researchers showed that people shared news stories and updates when their emotions were heightened. Sometimes these emotions were negative (fear and anger), but just as often they were positive. We are designed, it…

Gospel

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Share the News
Share the News
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