by Nev Granum | Feb 27, 2022 | Essays
I remember when my father placed the candle onto Incan stone. No larger than a magnolia bud. Alabaster colored. The texture of an eyelid. A wick broken in a jacket pocket. It lit on the third match. We sheltered the candle in a mossy terrace corner and watched the...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 22, 2022 | History
For lack of personal experience, along with profound hate and stupidity few can imagine today what great significance was bestowed on relics and objects, that are now vital voices and connections with the past. In the case of the “Fireman’s Park Totem’, this important...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 4, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. All of my life I have been involved with rifles and pistols. Like most everything in my life, I taught myself. I taught myself to row and understand the sea, to hunt and finally...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 2, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
This article was published in The Raider Patch, Issue Q1 2020 (Part 1) and Q2 2020 (Part 2) This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. About four years ago a well-dressed older Two Star General came up to me at a party...
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