Memorial Day- Solemn, Happy, or Both?
Christian Jacobs hugs the headstone of his father U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Jacobs as mother Brittany, wipes away a tear in Arlington National Cemetery A friend recently posted this …
Top 10 List of What President Obama Should Say in Hiroshima Speech
6 years ago, on the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, I wrote: No sitting Japanese prime minister has ever been to Pearl Harbor; …
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, …
A Christmas Tale: “We are all Jews, Muslims, Christians…”
In the sense of: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and …
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. …
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 …
Memorializing Our Fallen in Ramadi
Why Ramadi matters: The fall of Ramadi is highly symbolic and of substantial strategic significance, despite the protestations to the contrary of Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff …
Happy Birthday US Navy (Guest Post)
HAPPY 239TH BIRTHDAY U. S. NAVY — 13 October, 1775 – 13 October, 2014, dated from the creation of the Continental Navy by General George Washington after the Continental Congress …
Reaching Critical Mass
There is an undefined point, when a government is so corrupt and incompetent, that citizens will no longer be willing to defend it. Iran or maybe Obama’s chief handler Valerie …
Normandy: A Hero Returns
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