Thomas Chisholm
Thomas Chisholm is a retired Army Colonel. He has been a medic since 1948 when he joined the army as a recruit. He served in Korea, Japan and the Central Pacific for nearly four years before returning to school on the GI Bill of Rights, the economic program that created the great American Middle Class following WW II and Korea.
He served in Viet Nam, Europe, Pakistan, the Middle East and various places in the US caring for wounded military, dependents and civilians. He retired from the Army Medical Corps in 1993 after Iraq I, then worked in South Dakota on the Indian Reservations until joining VFP in 1998.
He continues to care for indigent patients in St. Paul with St. Mary's Health Clinics and serves every year in Nicaragua. He is a student of foreign policy and has a degree in history. Despite serving in the military he has been a critic of US foreign policy, including the current Iraq invasion to secure their oil under pretense of regime change and illusionary WMDs.
Tom recommends the following books:
"The Arrogance of Power and The Price of Empire" by F. William Fullbright, 1967; "The Peace to End All Peace" by David Fromkin 1989; "Shattered Peace", 1977 and "The Prize, the Epic Quest for Oil Power and Money" by David Yergin, 1991.
…you would not tell to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulci et decorum est pro patria mori!
— Wilfred Owen 1918