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Robert@VoDuBo.com
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A Retired Navy SEAL Promotes "Applied" Smart Power for Balanced Peacemaking
For questions and comments, or to arrange an appearance, please drop me a line at
Robert@VoDuBo.com
You can also find me as RobDuBois at Twitter.com
Hey, thanks for the interest – please contact me (through the Contact Me link at top…I know – not very original!) and I’d love to hear what you may want to contribute. Powerful Peace can be enhanced by the right voices and messages.
Hey Rob,
Its been a while since I last checked out your site. Reading it today, I see how far you have come. The topics you chose to talk about are quite complex and relevant. Besides your peers being impressed, your ohana in Hawaii would be and are impressed as well. I am sure the Good Lord, has been keeping his eye on you too. Seems as though more and more of the things you are talking about and looking at fall into my realm of work. I find the longer I stay in the work around corrections, more and more of the people I see coming into prison are involved with crimes affecting the world scene as opposed to just the local. For instance human trafficing, drug trafficing, and other criminal activity that seems to cross the lines into disrupting peace. Rob don’t stop doing what you are doing. Like you I have been working on literary piece too, but mine will be directed more toward the religious side of our society. I will keep you informed of how I am doing. May the Lord, Jesus Christ bless you, your work, and your family. Will be in touch later.
Blesssings, Bruddah Dave
Bruddah Dave, mahalo for da note! It’s so good to hear from you and yours. You know we want to get back “home” to the islands and see da ohana.
As we get closer to releasing this book, I’m going to be reaching out far and wide for change agents eager to spread the word on practical peacemaking. We may have to come back for a while just to fire up all the bruddahs and sistahs to warm up the coconut networks!
Aloha, friend. Give Judy and The Rooms our love.
- Rob
Hi Rob,
It’s wonderful to read a blog about current events without the author puffing themselves up.
Tony
Tony, thank you for the kind comment. I like to think I’ve learned enough about myself in recent years to understand that there’s not really much to puff up about. A sober and honest view of oneself is at first disappointing…then it sort of takes off all the pressure to be something other than what we are.
I spent six years as a Force Recon Marine and could not agree with you more. Hope to speak soon.
David
Thanks, David – I get a lot of similar comments from my SEAL brethren and other Special Operations brothers. Besides our having seen a lot of conflict first-hand, I think the unconventional mindset of SOF operators can quickly grasp the paradoxical ideas that violence can be prevented by non-forceful means.
What we do is very much like what the Fire Department does when it conducts site visits. Sure, they’re big buff guys who aren’t afraid to charge in and attack a fire…but how much better is it for all if the property owner never suffers any loss and no one is endangered, just because the firefighters stopped by and suggested moving a pile of rags away from a fire source?
Nicely done brother! Lookin forward to the book coming out and other ventures. God Bless and keep up the great work.
Great work so far! I look forward to getting a copy and Society for the Preservation of Military History will be doing a book review! Continued best wishes and God Bless.
-Donny
That’s terrific, Donny, thanks! I really appreciate your support to date and look forward to returning the favor for the Society.
Keep up the great blog brother. Looking forward to the book.
Rob,
Great to run into you today. I look forward to reading your book!
Jeff
Hi Rob,
I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for writing a wonderful blog and I am truly looking forward to reading you book. Last night I read the chapter you posted and I really can’t describe to you the emotions that it stirred. I was moved to tears and honestly I don’t know why, first off I am not a crier so the fact that it did move me to tears was astonishing. I have
pondered on my reaction for hours now and I believe that what I felt
was “hope”, true honest to god hope that maybe just maybe we can all turn this hatred around with love. Though I have never been a soldier, nor have I been closely affiliated with anyone that has; I feel strongly for those that are and have been. Maybe I just have a warrior spirit. Bottom line is your words resinant with me and I find myself connected to them in a way that I am not sure I fully understand yet. So Thank you Rob and with all my heart I “hope” that someday all people can find the God spark within them and learn to live in “Powerful Peace”.
A Warrior in Spirit if not in body.
Theri