You might want to pause the music before playing these.

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Michael Shaara's "Killer Angels" monologue from the movie Gettysburg. A very good movie inspired by a very great book.



The Guess Who - one of my favorite groups.


Celtic Women

My taste in music is very eclectic. Rock, country, show tunes, standards, folk, etc. You pretty much could be hearing anything when you arrive.

Hi,

My name is John. Thanks for dropping by for a visit.

A little about me. I was born in Evansville, Indiana and lived there, southern Illinois, and Tennessee before ending up here in Maryland at the age of five. I'm the youngest of three boys.

Happily married to my wonderful wife Ann (Cookie236 here at NOTH) since 2001. Be sure to visit Ann.

We enjoy the good life together with our yellow lab Daisy.

I have two children from a previous marriage, Jason (35), and Amy (33). No biological grandchildren but Ann brought five! :+)

You probably have figured out that I am a Ravens fan. I grew up an avid Baltimore Colts fan but ... well .. that is no more.

My job is in computers but I would be what is considered a dinosaur. Most of my career has been spent system programming on mainframes. Today I lead a project virtualizing Redhat Linux servers on IBM mainframes. You have to change with the times!

Enjoy the visit.

Michael Israel

I enjoy poker (Texas Hold'em) and play every Tuesday night.