Written by Craig Ardolino

Reason 1: Trump Is Not For Veterans

Trump has a long and well-documented history of contempt for military service. There’s audio of him congratulating a man for faking a disability, as Trump did, to escape the Vietnam draft. There’s a video of him challenging the heroism of being a POW in 1999 and 2015. Videos, transcripts, witness testimony, and tweets show him ridiculing American generals in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020. His family members say he criticized his brother for going into the military and threatened to disown his son if he enlisted.

Written by Craig Ardolino

Dressed As Dark As The Night

Moving swiftly, I hurried down the first three steps and yanked the refrigerator back. It moved silently on its tracks, reached the end, and settled back onto the floor. The latch issued a meaningless click as the front and back doors slammed open. A deep male voice bellowed, “FBI.” (more)

Written by Craig Ardolino

Cool Embrace of the Sea

My parents raised my brother and me on a naked beach. My earliest memory is of feeling the cool embrace of the sea while in the safety of my mom’s warm arms. As I grew older, it became a morning routine to wake up, run bare-skinned out of the house and across the cool morning […]