I had the pleasure of attending the Freedom Committee of Orange Country monthly luncheon today and meeting some true American Heroes. The members of the Freedom Committee of Orange County bring with them a “Living History” of WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Stories of Pearl Harbor, the Dieppe raid, Battle of the Bulge, D-Day, Air battles in the war torn skies of the South Pacific, over Fortress Europe, and even experiences of being…
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FULLERTON –Three … two … one …
The pint-sized producer motions to Gloria Rice to start as four iPads aimed her way begin recording.
“My dad was in the Navy, so he was gone all the time,” Rice, 85, shares of her life as a child with a father in World War II. “We had no television … no video games.”
The resident of the…
Trump, Cruz, Clinton, Sanders and Estate Planning
What could Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders possibly have to do with Estate Planning? I think we can all agree that this is the craziest presidential election we have ever experienced or even heard about. The fact is that there actually have a been a few that revealed this one. The 1964 Republican nomination process was almost a mirror image of what is happening today. Amazing. And here we are again,…
Wisdom versus knowledge
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein Wisdom is an intangible quality gained through our experiences in life that gives us the ability to make correct decisions and judgements. Knowledge is only the awareness of the information. Who we are is a product of wisdom whereas what we do is a product of knowledge. Character is simply who…
Larry Lessons
Dad happily passed wisdom from his generation to the next.
Jonathan Lansner, Staff Columnist for the Orange County Register, wrote a great article about his father, Larry, and the “wisdom that any parent passes on to the next generation.” Jonathan states that “I figured that I’d share a few noteworthy “Larry Lessons” that I’m sure shaped my life.’ This article is heart warming and certainly worth a few minutes to read. The article can…