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- Veteran’s Day: 12 Ways to Give Back to Our Troops and Vets
  
  By Dave Ursillo on Nov 11, 2010
  
  “What good is a dream’s pursuit with not the liberty to pursue it?”
  
  I always say, although our military serves us proudly abroad, when they return home, it’s time for us to serve them.
  
  But how, exactly, should we give back?
  
  As is the unfortunate case with many aspects of life, it’s far easier to remain indifferent and ignore the service of our military veterans rather than step up and take action — or even offer simple thanks to a veteran in uniform on the street.
  
  Beyond the natural tendency of remaining indifferent, I think it’s fairly tough for …
  
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- The Journal I Never Kept: Army ROTC
  
  By Dave Ursillo on Jun 10, 2010
  
  “How committed are you?”
  
  This is the only question that I can remember Captain Painter asking me over the course of our short interview regarding the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program in September of 2004.
  
  Just over eighteen years old at the time, I sat opposite this stern-but-amiable lifelong military man clad in his camouflage battle dress uniform, surrounded by a litany of flags, emblems and military insignias. In a moment that stands out in my memory, I recall coolly replying, “I can’t see myself not doing this.”
  
  My words were less a statement of confidence and certainty …
  
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- The (Forthcoming) Generation-Y Leadership Gap?
  
  By Dave Ursillo on May 25, 2010
  
  “We and our kids together need to be ‘The Regeneration’– the generation that renews, refreshes, re-energizes and rebuilds America for the 21st century.” ~Thomas L. Friedman
  
  The extent to which the modern economic recession has disproportionately impacted the rising American generation–”Generation Y” or the “Millennial” generation–by way of disproportionately high unemployment and underemployment threatens to widely distend the ordinary window of time through which members of any rising generation can socially and professionally develop into formative positions of influence and leadership.
  
  During such desperate times of foreign and domestic struggle, the dangerous and plausible consequence …
  
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- The Journal I Never Kept: The Interview
  
  By Dave Ursillo on May 6, 2010
  
  “The Journal I Never Kept” is a new column feature on DaveUrsillo.com that details true stories from my past in a storytelling style, as if from a journal of only memory. I hope you enjoy them.
  
  There I sat, alone on a green leather-bound chair in the corner of a small waiting area in the Lower West Wing of the White House. Outside, the heat and humidity were as characteristically oppressive as can be in July in Washington, D.C.
  
  In between my long, awestruck stares at photographs on the walls of then-President George W. Bush alongside …
  
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- The Myth of Global Governance
  
  By Dave Ursillo on Jan 21, 2010
  
  “Wake unto the day.
  The gaze of Thou shakes Black haze.
  Rise again in the Age of Green, wherein we struggle to see life as anything but varying shades of color.
  
  The skies pierce in powdery Blue. Cloud floats in Grays and Whites as if from billowing stacks and children look in wonder of what cities were like.
  
  Once-free men decry the woeful Yellow sun that shines brightly only to more clearly reveal the Brown mud and murk of the ever-empowered Elected, the ones who have betrayed us.
  
  Oh, we have survived. But devoid of the White light of freedom, …
  
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- Origins of the European Union
  
  By Dave Ursillo on Jan 18, 2010
  
  The primary contributing factor in the earliest stages of European Integration — and that would eventually lead to the creation of the modern European Union — was a universal interest in national security.
  
  And yet, national security issues are exactly what prevents European Integration from progressing as far as it was once desired.
  
  The European states began to unite in the 1950′s after two devastating world wars that demanded a forum for diplomacy that might allow the continent to avoid an unsurvivable third.
  
  Meanwhile, national security pressed heavily upon the minds of Europeans as they faced possible consumption by the …
  
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- America is Not Losing the Free World
  
  By Dave Ursillo on Jan 5, 2010
  
  Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman argues this week that “America is losing the free world.”
  
  Rachman contends that the “latest example” of America losing the free world is President Obama’s failure to secure an agreement during the Copenhagen climate change meetings in late 2009, which indicates a much larger trend: that developing democracies such as Brazil, India, South Africa and Turkey are equally (if not more likely) to side with authoritative countries such as China on international issues.
  
  If only it were the case.
  
  Rachman continues, “[i]f climate change were an isolated example,” perhaps the notion that America …
  
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