Articles written by James Thompson

Blue Two is a retired Air Force officer who loves to write.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Military memories: 1 of 15

Butterflies Viet Nam has some of the most beautiful butterflies in the world, but during the war it was also the home of the most lethal kind. The VC had many clever ways of killing people, but the fatal butterfly was the most insidious of them all. It all started with a routine trip to the Army's depot ship at Vung Tau. One...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Favorite drive-in restaurants: 1 of 2

I was a teenager in the 1950s. For those of you who are now thinking, "What a lucky guy," I have a bucket of cold water to throw on your imagination. Most of us can identify with the old TV show "Happy Days", but not in the way you might imagine. You see, the characters on that show were very true to life. There was only one...