Where EXCELLENCE is not just a nice word.

I have recently taken a short-term opportunity for employment as a Rifle Instructor at Culver Academies in Culver, IN. I am working as part of their summer leadership program for boys and girls called Culver Summer Schools and Camps that has a steep tradition of 109 years and counting. I wanted to quickly share with [...]

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When Grown Men Cry

Men do not cry. Pretty strong statement. What do you think, do they? Many people make this statement thinking that a grown man crying is very effeminate. This is where all of this started for me because growing up I saw the complete opposite. Growing up I looked up to my dad and now as [...]

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What is a Godly Man?

I believe that there is a God and therefore believe that I am accountable to Him. I believe that one day I must answer to Him for my life, both my actions as well as my thoughts. With this accountability I would like to draw a more specific definition of what a man is. This [...]

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What defines a MAN???

I have spent a good bit of my life trying to figure out what a man is. It almost seems to be fleeting. What I always seem to catch however is what a man is not. Now let me clarify this by saying that I have found numerous explanations of what a man is but [...]

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Leadership Trait: Courage

We are looking at one leadership trait at the end of each week. We are starting this out by looking at the Marine Corps leadership traits that I was taught and today we are looking to what is in the gut, Courage. We think of courage at times as this thing that young boys have [...]

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The Highest of Honor on the Battlefield

Over the past few weeks I have been thinking a lot about honor and what it means to pay honor to someone. This might have to do with the fact that I attended a few funerals in the past few months or that my son is creeping ever-closer to his first birthday, which had made [...]

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