My Veterans' Day gift to all of you.

This is my Veterans’ Day gift to all my fellow veterans. The only thing I can give you from this distance is information, but, information can be quite entertaining.

As I am sure you know by now from reading my articles, my personal interests are quite eclectic. That is to say, I am interested in so many odd things it would be hard to categorize them. So I wanted to share some interesting and odd web sites with you as your present from me.

Think of it as my way to say "thank you" for a job well done in your Service experience.

First up is one of my favorite web sites for slow browsing. The articles are always odd but always thought provoking. This web site is Unexplained Mysteries . Com and the address is here.

Here is another favorite of mine that is devoted to both serious and not so serious aspects of cryptozoology, the study of creatures who are out of place for one reason or another. That web site is here.

Here is another crypto web site that I frequent called Cryptomundo.

This one is a hoot. It is called Mysterious People. The web site is here.

Here is a sort of New Age one but it has a certain fringe appeal. The web site is here.

This is a bit different, even for fringe web sites, but you might find some stuff that interests you here.

Here is a web site to keep you posted and up to date on UFO sightings.

Here is another web site that does a related thing, track current UFO sightings.

Here is a site that gives you pointers on how to view UFOs and what to do once you find one!

And here is a really strange site of really strange phenomenon. I have never really been able to make out what this site’s agenda really is…very odd.

Here is a site that will allow you to see everything NASA has just posted that the Hubble Telescope has seen lately.

Getting back to Veterans’ Issues, here is a site that posts 38 C.F.R. which is all the rules and regulations that apply to us as veterans. Very useful as a source document.

Here is a translator that you can use to write things in various languages.

Here is a moving Self Hypnosis Spiral that you can use to (1) either put yourself to sleep or (2) come up with the latest winning lottery numbers in a self induced trance.

Here is a really interesting site for warplane buffs. It shows pictures of captured warplanes and how the enemy used them against the original owners.

Here is a site that shows a Japanese Zero captured by American troops in China and how they "Americanized" the plane for flight trials.

Here is a picture of a British marked captured Zero.

Here are the sites of my four books: A Distant and Clear View  Finnegan Tales  Report to General Shinseki  and my first novel, The McGurk.  

Enjoy. I hope you get some pleasure from reading these sites.

CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)