Selected Articles
Man the Choicemaker
Nature vs. Government
A Fairy Tale of Glibness of Pap
"Be Thou an Honest Man?"
"Champion Y'shua Jesus"
Halloween 365 Nights-a-Year
Humble? On Purpose?
"In League with the Stones..."
Law or Principle
"Paid In Full."
Hands of a Teacher
"The Flyer said..."
The Force in Motion
The Jew
The Value of the Individual
"Why un-Believers Can't THINK"
"The Mathematics of Life"
Butter and Honey
Declaration of Independance - Intro
Humanism
Isaac Newton
Letter to Sam Lamb
Tribute to an Uncommon Educator
Classic Mediocrity
U.S. Marines
A New Life
Under God
"Big Jim" Causey
Leadership
"Big Jim" Causey
Carl V. "Sam" Lamb and I served side-by-side as rifle-squad leaders Fox Company, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. He wrote a book about his experiences in that conflict, 1950-1951. He included my remarks about an incident in which one of our people threatened to punch-out a fellow squad-leader who had black skin.
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THE LAST PARADE
by Carl V. Lamb Page 296 (1951)James Fletcher Baxter
Sam and I had a lot in common. We both resisted evil. After I got out of the hospital, Big Jim Causey told of driving along in his police cruiser and hitting a black man in his head with his pistol. He thought it was funny how the guy sprawled into the street. When he made this comment we were in a card game. I didn't say anything, but then he said he was going to kick the shit out of Joe Goggins and I had heard enough. I said, "If you're going to try that, you'll have to go through me to get to him. I'm willing to give my life for a country that values each individual. If that isn't true, I don't want to fight for that country - but, it is true, so I'm not going to let you rob me of the very good reason I may lose my life tomorrow or next week. If you attack him, you attack me. I may lose, but I guarantee I will make it very expensive for you to get to him. Let me know what you decide."
He got up from our card game and said, "I'll have to think about it."
I said, "Let me know. I'll be here."
He came back a little later and said, "You're right. I was wrong." I thanked him for his manliness.
Joe Goggins came to me later and thanked me. He had tears in his eyes.
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