Monthly Archives: January 2017

I was a very young and very low-ranking airman when I first arrived at RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, in January 1965.  The convenient thing about the Air Force was that you always knew who was more distinguished than you: … Continue reading →

By Philip E. Jenks January 20, 2017 – Like most of us, I have a lot of friends who voted for the new President. I don’t know why they did and, when I ask them, they tell me to give … Continue reading →

January 12, 2017 – On 12 January 1968, I climbed aboard a chartered Boeing 707 and flew from Royal Air Force Station Lakenheath, England to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. In each of the 49 years since then, … Continue reading →

      By Philip E. Jenks Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 88 this week. It is entirely appropriate that we have engraved his image on postage stamps and carved larger-than-life stone monuments to his memory. But as … Continue reading →