My father, Willard L. Tilford, was born on November 22, 1915. His father, John Cabel Breckinridge Powell Lee Davis Tilford… Read more My Friend Smokey, by Willard Tilford

Well, let’s work this out. We can skip problem definition. It’s been done for us on social media, television, newspapers,… Read more Too Much Money in Politics (What We Can Do About It)

The following was written for Memorial Day, 2001. Bloomington’s George J. Keller does a good job reading “A Soldier Died… Read more His First Memorial Day

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act did not go far enough.(Written in 2012 by John W. Tilford) I personally… Read more National Health Care

This guest column was submitted by John W. Tilford, a former Veterans Administration employee, veteran of the Vietnam War and… Read more A War With No Prize for Second Place

Pakistan; dwarfed by India’s population, economy, technology, has a long history of using radical groups as proxy warriors. This Faustian… Read more Pakistan, Faust, and Trump

Too Many VA Appeals? Why? On 15 September 2016 the US House of Representatives passed legislation to “reform the Department… Read more VA Appeal Changes. Thank you, Congress.

John W. Tilford5561 Earl Young RoadBloomington, Indiana  47408-9360 14 October 2019 General Counsel (024)Department of Veterans Affairs810 Vermont Avenue, N.W.sWashington,… Read more Freedom of Information Act Appeal, FOIA request to the VA, number: 18-10483-F

Why do you care about “L T A”? You don’t. I do. I’m driving my first sporty car, a white… Read more Finding LTA

I was never close to being a Ranger. There was that one week segment of Infantry Officer Basic Course at… Read more 6 June 1944