GONE FOR A SOLDIER
A periodic blog about our country often through the eyes of those who defend its values and with little known details discovered while perusing the stacks at my local library, turning pages in a new book, or soaring across the internet
dress rehearsal for D-Day
As we commemorate the sacrifice of American and allied soldiers on D-Day in 1944, I think of the losses we sustained a month earlier while training...
ARMED FORCES DAY 5/21/22
May 21, the third Saturday of May, is reserved to acknowledge all past and present members of our military
Searching for untold stories
I’ve had a lifelong interest in history, specifically in World War II history, but it’s probably more accurate to call my interest a passion—one...
Breaking Point
Military History Now published my article about post-traumatic stress disorder in World War II. Of course, it wasn’t known as PTSD then ... Below...
celebrating centenarians
Last week, Lawrence Brooks, the oldest living World War II veterandied at the age of 112. Centenarians seem to be everywhere these days—or do I...
Pearl Harbor Eighty Years On
The Normandy American Cemetery may be the most familiar of all the American cemeteries and memorials commemorating American fallen in World War II,...