Akkam’s Razor

A couple of semesters ago, I read a Businessweek article on Home Depot then-CEO Bob Nardelli’s plan to turn around Home Depot.  BW glowingly reported on Nardelli’s personnel changes and differing style, with his strong preference for hiring former-military persons in key rolls.  Anecdotally speaking, a masters program classmate who was also a Naval Academy graduate mentioned that Home Depot had indeed made a push for hiring employees who were formerly Officer Grade to run their stores, casting the opportunity as entrepreneurial.  Businessweek gave several hints as to what was coming in their description of Nardelli’s style:

Blogger, veteran, and author Colby Buzzell writes the following:

Since the Army was kind enough to send me an invitation to go back to Operation Iraqi Freedom, I decided to R.S.V.P. to it by writing a little Op-Ed piece about it for the San Francisco Chronicle.

The article is here. Buzzell says the following:

On way out of my building two weeks ago, I checked my mailbox and found a letter from the Department of the Army with “Important Document” printed in all caps on the middle. I immediately felt sick, so I went back to my room, locked the door, grabbed a beer from the fridge and stared out my window for a while. People outside were all wearing sunglasses and walking about enjoying the sun. I took a picture.

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I spent the afternoon cleaning out the basement (again), looking at old prom pictures, and throwing out things that we no longer have any use for.  The soundtrack was Billy Joel's Greatest Hits: Volume 2.  It was when I heard Goodnight, Saigon, that the chill ran up my spine, to something I had heard earlier today…

It was two years ago, on April 22, 2004, that Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan as a member of the celebrated Army Rangers.  Eight months after September 11th, Tillman walked away from a promising football career (along with his brother, Kevin, abandoning a promising professional baseball career), to serve his country and hunt down the enemy who slaughtered 3,000 Americans on that date of infamy.