OUR MEDAL OF HONOR

OUR MEDAL OF HONOR

Yesterday, June 29, 2022, Hershel “Woody” Williams died at age 98. He was the last surviving WWII recipient of the Medal of Honor, America’s highest honor for military valor in action. Learn more about the Medal here.

Breaking Point

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 is an excerpt. All they wanted to do was fly!  When America entered the Second World War, thousands of young men...
Pearl Harbor Eighty Years On

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, and it is an incredibly moving experience to walk through the innumerable rows of crosses and Stars of David and on the...
Vietnam Plus 51 Years

Vietnam Plus 51 Years

This summer, fifty-one years after he served as an A-1H pilot in Vietnam, former US Air Force Lt. Hampton Tillery visited the Tennessee Aviation Museum in Sevierville, Tennessee. He came to see the fully restored aircraft that he flew during the war. Not just nay A-1H...