by Rona Simmons | Sep 17, 2021 | Military, PTSD, Veterans
PTSD in History in Literature and in All of Us In the wake of the United States military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, mainstream and social media were all consumed with the news. A suicide bombing that resulted in the deaths of thirteen of our soldiers and marines....
by Rona Simmons | Aug 25, 2021 | Military, WWII
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and journalist Joe Galloway, who once accompanied Moore into the field, wrote the acclaimed book We Were Soldiers Once … and Young about a battle in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam. The book, published in 1992, was a New York Times...
by Rona Simmons | Jun 16, 2021 | Military, Military History, WWII
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 something to do with their hands, Hollywood considered smoking to be sophisticated and sexy. Thankfully, today, with...
by Rona Simmons | May 31, 2021 | Military, WWII
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 months of pandemic-induced isolation, many Americans will gather the kids and head to the beach or the mountains with...
by Rona Simmons | Dec 7, 2020 | Military, WWII
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, Michael. is the last. Two very different men, as no doubt all 1,177 who perished aboard the USS Arizona on...
by Rona Simmons | Oct 16, 2020 | Military, Veterans, WWII
“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 transcribe the handwritten comments of a thousands of soldiers who responded to a survey during and in the aftermath of...
