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 23
by Jim Clonts, 2009

09/10/2009

Regarding the President's Message to School Children

Anybody else find it ironic that in order to quell parents' fears about liberal indoctrination of their children, President Obama's address was a mostly conservative message? I find it fascinating that even he knows when it comes time to send the right message--it's conservative in nature: self-reliance, hard work, self-discipline, perseverance, fulfilling potential, etc. He knows this is the message America wants their kids to hear. Ronald Reagan could have given that speech. It stands in unusually stark contrast to Obama's normal rhetoric and rings hollow coming from his lips. Still...kudos, Mr President, you got one right.

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