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
Cigarettes in War and Peace
Can you name a film from the 1940s or 1950s where the actors did not smoke, sometimes throughout the movie? Probably not. Besides giving characters...
Memorial Day x 3 in Georgia
Memorial Day is often thought of as the beginning of summer, although the official start is still three weeks away. And this weekend, after the long...
Precision Research: UFOs and Bombsights
What we know to be true about UFOs and Norden Bombsights In January 2021, the CIA released a trove of previously “secret” documents on unidentified...
Pearl Harbor: A to Z
Hubert Charles Titus Aaron and Michael Zwarun, Jr. Aaron, Hubert Charles Titus is the first name listed on the memorial at Pearl Harbor. Zwarun, Jr,...
The Luck of the Draw, The Role of the Dice
At 0300 on June 25, 1943, a jeep crept quietly through the dark to one of the Niessen huts at Thorpe Abbotts airfield. The sergeant on board,...
In Their Own Words
“All in all I would like to be appreciated as a man” Recently Virginia Tech and the National Endowment for the Humanities launched a project to...