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  • Thoughts on a senseless funeral

    I attended the memorial service April 16 for Lynette Enyeart, the wife of Warren's retired chief master sergeant Steve Enyeart.Mrs. Enyeart died from a car accident when a drunk driver hit her vehicle. For those of you who did not attend the service, I would like to pass on a few thoughts.During the

  • Activities at Warren? Make it so!

    I was never a big Star Trek fan, but I did enjoy watching the Next Generation series. You know, the one with Captain Picard, not Kirk.In just about every episode, Captain Picard would prepare his crew for a mission and would ultimately get underway by giving the crew the order to engage.With that

  • Events leading to Holocaust

    It has been 65 years since the Allies liberated the concentration camps and freed all of the prisoners from certain death.This month, we remember all of the souls that were stolen during that time.There were numerous events that led up to the beginning of the extermination of "those not worthy;"

  • Remembrance: Celebrate diversity, abolish indifference

    Next week has been designated to remember the more than 6 million victims of Nazi aggression and the Holocaust.The United States Holocaust Museum has selected "Never Again: What You Do Matters" as the theme for this year's Days of Remembrance.This theme is a fitting tribute to the courageous men and

  • What makes a leader?

    What comes to mind when you hear the words lead or leader? Well, lead means to act as a guide, and leader means a person who leads, directs, commands or guides a group or activity. The current Air Force professional development guide says leadership is the art of influencing and directing people to

  • Warren reflects upon effects of Holocaust in today’s society

    How every person is remembered is just as important as how they lived. Men and women who lost their lives in service were defending their families -- the same families that mourn them once gone.What happens when there is no one to mourn a lost family member? What if six million members of a single

  • The importance of IMAs

    When I was active duty, I never really understood the role of reservists.When I deployed to Afghanistan, I worked with many traditional reservists, and I appreciated how they were organized. They belonged to a unit composed of people like them, and they had that catchy slogan of "one weekend a

  • Privacy Act for dummies: Use of statement sometimes required

    Now that I've got your attention, here is some guidance on how to use the Privacy Act.You're probably thinking, "I live in the computer age so how is an act that was around before Bill Gates found a window going to help me?"Well, do you know what it protects? Do you know what is releasable and what

  • Tobacco-free AF means healthy troops

    As the newly-assigned health education program manager in Warren's Health and Wellness Center, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself.I started my new job March 2. I retired from the Air Force in early 2004, and I have been a health educator for more than five years working for

  • Women take part in the environmental movement

    It's as basic as keeping the air we breathe clean and the water we drink pure, and it's as politically knotty as halting construction of incinerators in the inner city and reducing population growth in developing nations.Environmental activism comes in many guises but shares one common trait -- it