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02/03/2026

I watched the movie "Serpico" for the first time last night. His story from the past brought me realizations about today. Life today is so different than what I expected, I need to keep learning.
"Serpico" is a simple story: an honest man whose idealized view of being a police officer meets a devastating reality: corruption. When he tries to work within the system to correct the problem, he learns that it’s bigger than he had realized. He reaches out higher and higher in the system to ranking officers—officers and commissioners in whom a sense of honesty and integrity should be even greater—only to be shocked at how deeply they, too, are corrupt. Spoiler alert: Serpico persists and lays his life on the line before his integrity can rise, be recognized, and succeed.
I am having the reverse experience…I was devastated to realize the Evil and Stupidity at the very highest office in our country. I’ve been shocked to find that many members of Congress are just as lacking in integrity. Finally, I keep finding others around me, shoulder-to-shoulder, who accept and support this Evil and Stupidity. My salvation now is to persist: I won’t promote or even accept Hate or Evil or Stupidity. I’ll persist, even though some have put their lives on the line…and lost.

12/08/2025

06/24/2025

“Bridges’s bibliography was so inconsistent that I couldn’t even begin to estimate what he’d written, much less assess when, where, how, or why he’d written it. Obviously, Bridges was all about his thrillers, but his earlier writings also had to be put into play to gain any real understanding of the author. Trying to find his short stories, poems, and plays would be hard enough…perhaps as many as 45 books, incorporating nonfiction, thrillers, plays, and double shortstory and poetry collections. I counted and recounted his books, and then counted them again. And there was more. Bridges also wrote for the movies, that is, he wrote movie scenarios and his novels had been adapted into movies as well, but—wait for it—his movies, adaptations, and screenplays alike, are now all lost.
I made a plan to read everything that I could find that Bridges wrote, and except for not reading a few uncollected short stories, two unpublished plays, and any publications yet unknown by this writing, I have done so.” Kaleta’s new critical biography, Victor Bridges, is on Amazon now.
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06/23/2025

Ken Kaleta brings another artist to life—Victor Bridges—in his latest critical biography. Kaleta understands the development of the Bridges Hero through the 20th century. Kaleta tells two stories of the 20th century with personal, academic, and artistic insights: Bridges and his own. Impacted by world war, the Cold War, Post-modernism, and the atomic bomb, both writers embrace their idealistic heroes to look forward, move forward, and push forward while living in a realistic world.
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06/23/2025

A new critical biography and comprehensive resource to Victor Bridges arrives today! Victor Bridges was a very successful author of adventure and thriller books and stories through most of the 20th century, but his reputation has not survived the bigger, splashier heroes of today. But the heroes he created still are at the root of these new heroes: vulnerable heroes in motion, at times defenseless, but never vanquished. Ken Kaleta’s exhaustive and personal research has uncovered the lost career of this literary figure: short-story writer, poet, nonfiction writer, playwright, film writer, but mostly a writer of adventure thrillers. Available now at Amazon.

Throughout literature, a trek of discovery may become a trek of self-discovery as well. Such is Ken Kaleta’s search for the author, . Kaleta’s exhaustive and personal research uncovered the lost career of this 20th century literary figure: short-story writer, poet, nonfiction writer, playwright....

06/23/2025

A new critical biography and comprehensive resource to Victor Bridges arrives today! Victor Bridges was a very successful author of adventure and thriller books and stories through most of the 20th century, but his reputation has not survived the bigger, splashier heroes of today. But the heroes he created still are at the root of these new heroes: vulnerable heroes in motion, at times defenseless, but never vanquished. Ken Kaleta’s exhaustive and personal research has uncovered the lost career of this literary figure: short-story writer, poet, nonfiction writer, playwright, film writer, but mostly a writer of adventure thrillers. Available now at Amazon.
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06/18/2023

My wish is that that my kids think I'm as good a dad as mine was! Happy Father's Day!

In the shadow of Father’s Day—yesterday—I am thinking about my father, whom I lost seven years ago. Since then, I’ve gotten to enjoy Father’s Day without any worry of meeting a son’s Father’s Day duty or the pressure of buying a Father’s Day gift. But the day has never passed without...

06/07/2023

I have the honor of being the son of a Marine who participated in the D-Day Normandy Invasion...my father manned antiaircraft guns on the USS Texas, a battleship that saw lots of action throughout WWII. My father had joined the Marines in December 1943 at age 17, boarded the Texas in April, and by June 6 he was in active combat. I've had the pleasure of meeting several of his friends who served with him--one of whom I still talk to today, Bill Wright, another Marine AA gunner on the Texas. All just regular guys who stepped up to do a very extraordinary thing. They weren't blinded by a need to make themselves great, they felt great because they contributed to the greater, maybe the greatest, cause. I've posted his memoir of that day before, but I never lose pride in who he and they were or what they did.

My father went onboard the battleship USS Texas , on April 4, 1944 at Pier 51, North River, New York as a US Marine. He was assigned to the team that manned one of the two four-barrel 40mm anti-aircraft guns—called quad-40s—that were situated at the fantail of the ship: the 8 black barrels in th...

01/08/2021

Once before, people interfered with the U.S. government and caused the death of a government official...this is how it was dealt with. Sent a clear message.

12/25/2020

Most people watch "It's a Wonderful Life" and think the moral to the story is summed up in Clarence's inscription: "Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends." But I also see the nasty moral, that fat lying oafish thieves with their sniveling sycophants get to keep the money! I just can't get over that injustice.

12/07/2020

Forgive the reposting of an old blog entry, but in today's divided world, I think it's important to read about a time when the nation pulled together selflessly to make the ultimate sacrifice. My father's remembrances of responding to the Pearl Harbor attack...

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As a date that has been cursed to live in infamy, December 7th was an actual date when real people across America must have felt exactly what we feel today when our newsfeeds and social media and TV networks cover terrorist attacks. But in 1941, the world-at-large was more mysterious to people…it ...

06/06/2020

Seventy-six years ago, June 6, 1944 was a day of struggle, suffering, and eventual victory at Normandy, France. A mixture of tragedy and heroics for Allied forces. My father was there and recorded his experiences to share. Please share this link with your family and friends. ://www.kaysquarepress.com/theres-a-word-for-that/2017/6/6/d-day Seventy-six years ago,

My father went onboard the battleship USS Texas , on April 4, 1944 at Pier 51, North River, New York as a US Marine. He was assigned to the team that manned one of the two four-barrel 40mm anti-aircraft guns—called quad-40s—that were situated at the fantail of the ship: the 8 black barrels in th...