Sherpa's Personal Stash of Posts from 'The Sandbox'

A personal collection of Doonesbury and 34th Infantry 'Red Bull' Division memorabilia

From 2010 to present, I was fortunate to have my writing occasionally featured by Doonesbury's "The Sandbox," which I discussed in a blog-post earlier this week.

Until I attempted to summarize there what lessons I'd learned as a mil-blogger, however, I hadn't counted the number of times I'd been so blessed.

I would like to extend my thanks to Sandbox editor David Stanford for his constant good humor, light touch, and efforts to tell the citizen-soldier story in first-person, present-tense. I was shocked and awed when Stanford tallied my appearances there at more than 30 times!

As something of my own Sandbox archive, here's a round-up of Red Bull Rising blog-posts featured there, along with date of publication. The links point to The Sandbox versions of the blog-posts; some originally appeared on the Red Bull Rising blog under different headlines. I've also taken the liberty of creating a label for blog-posts that mentioned or were featured on The Sandbox.

'Scenes from a send-off ceremony'

***** 2010 *****

• "Pimp my Ryder TOC," Apr. 9, 2010

• "Not in front of the kids," Apr. 26, 2010

• "Semper Fi, Moon," May 5, 2010

• "Three ways to remember Capt. Dan Whitten," May 23, 2010

• "Scenes from a send-off ceremony," Aug. 4, 2010

• "Theories of time and space," Oct. 10, 2010

• "The brotherhood of the traveling flat minuteman," Nov. 11, 2010

• "Values," Dec. 6, 2010

***** 2011 *****

• "What we're doing in Afghanistan," Jan. 1, 2011

• "Coming home on a bungie cord," Feb. 1, 2011

• "Dudes of War," Mar. 5, 2011

• "Don't they know there's a war on?" May 17, 2011

• "The things I carried," Jun. 2, 2011

• "We apologize for the inconvenient," Jun. 5, 2011

'A hard turn at Najil'

• "Going to the dogs," Jun. 10, 2011

• "A hard turn at Najil," Jun. 21, 2011

• "Down and out at the Oak Leaf Lounge," Jun. 30, 2011

• "Chasing the Red Bull," Jul. 13, 2011

• "Not-so-shaggy dog stories," Aug. 11, 2011

***** 2012 *****

• "Everyday memorials for fallen friends," Apr. 27, 2012

• "The things we carry still," May 21, 2012

• "Mail-call for mil-dogs," Jun. 25, 2012

• "The Sherpatudes" Apr. 9, 2011

• "The Pentagon wants you, artists!" Sept. 6, 2012

• "Words about War," Nov. 12, 2012

• "Toy terrain team," Dec. 18, 2012

***** 2013 to present *****

• "Boonie's haiku contest," Apr. 2, 2013

• "All I could be," Jun. 3, 2013

  

  'All I could be'

• "Dillion," Sept. 4, 2013

• "A prayer for Thanksgiving," Nov. 27, 2013

• "Operation Reindeer Games," Dec. 23, 2013

• "Quoting cookies," Jan. 13, 2013

• "On mil-blogs, lessons-learned, and why we write," Mar. 25, 2014

• "The Pass In Review," Apr. 3, 2014