WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 7
by Jim Clonts, 2009

05/17/2009

"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men?s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name---liberty. And it follows that each of these things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names---liberty and tyranny."

Abraham Lincoln, 1864

Question of the Week:

Which group described above is winning this war to define liberty? Are we losing our freedoms for the sake of personal security? Is that personal security true liberty? Is it the Government's responsibility to take from those who prosper and redistribute to those who don't. Is this liberty? or tyranny?

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