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Category: On This Day

2024 election / Afghanistan / Disasters / Foreign policy / History / On This Day

A reminder: Kamala Harris was the last person in the room

As the Taliban holds a parade with abandoned US military hardware, a reminder that Kamala Harris by her own account was the last person in the room when the decision was made, and she is comfortable with that decision.

American Exceptionalism / Anti-Americanism / Constitution / Freedom / History / Holidays / Indoctrination / On This Day / This Day in History

Saturday….in the park…..I think it was the…..

  Happy American Independence Day, FA readers! I don’t apologize for being American; but I do apologize for not writing up a better post during this time of distress and …

American Exceptionalism / Military / military history / Obituaries / On This Day / Support the Troops / This Day in History / True Heroes

Know the Names

  Gary Gordon.   Randy Shughart. WordsmithA former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He …

9/11 / Afghanistan / Bush 43 / Bush Exceptionalism / Congress / On This Day / Politics / This Day in History / War On Terror

On this Day in History: President Bush’s address to Congress Sept. 20, 2001

WordsmithA former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from …

Japan / military history / On This Day / This Day in History

No Apology Tour Needed for 75th Anniversary of the Day that Lives in Infamy

  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor today. I’m fine with this: The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not apologize during his historic visit to Pearl Harbor in …

military history / On This Day / This Day in History / True Heroes / Vietnam War

On this day in history: Jay Vargas

Figured this deserves more attention than just a “Most Wanted” post, even if my own commentary is sparse. He went back for that effing arm…. On this day in 1968, …

Bush Derangement Syndrome / Bush Exceptionalism / Celebrity Idiots / History / Katrina / On This Day / This Day in History

Kanye West’s Finest Moment in American History

In honor of celebrating the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and to further perpetuate and promote the current Black Lives Matter Movement, Maxwell Strachan of HuffPo reflects upon the romanticized remembrance …

Barack Obama / Foreign Policy / History / Iran / Japan / military history / On This Day / Ronald Reagan / This Day in History

70 years ago….and yesterday

The single most destructive bombing of WWII wasn’t Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the firebombing raids of Dresden in February of 1945, with upwards of 135,000 men, women, and children slain. …

military history / On This Day / This Day in History

70th Anniversary of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis

I was just 7 years old living at Wright Patterson, AFB when the movie Jaws came out in theaters. 1975. I remember my parents bringing me to see it. Part …

American Exceptionalism / On This Day / This Day in History / Vietnam War

On this Day in History: 40 Years Ago….Vietnam.

HuffPo: On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, marking the end of a decades-long conflict that left millions dead. With North Vietnamese …

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