Five feet 4 inches in height, 120 pounds when he “got his full growth,” Victor Krulak was dubbed “Brute” by his fellow cadets at Annapolis. The nickname stuck. The now-77-year-old retired marine Lt. Gen. Krulak …
February 15, 1990
News & Stories
General Krulak – big in Vietnam, big at the Copley Press
Fight over Camp Pendleton's 28-mile Foothill Corridor
Camp Pendleton is Southern California's biggest and most valuable piece of undeveloped land - a 19,000-square-mile island of open space where bison and bobcats coexist with bazooka-carrying Marine Infantrymen. If the peace juggernaut ever pushes …
February 15, 1990
We bought our house on Fire Mountain in Oceanside during the real-estate frenzy
I carried a drink outside and squatted down on the lawn in the lee of the big bottlebrush, an ancient beast gone from shrub to tree with a trunk as broad as my waist, and I thought some about the frightening new notion of home ownership.
February 15, 1990