In the early evening hours of October 25, 2007 in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, Army Staff Sargent Salvatore Giunta and seven troops were returning to camp when they were ambushed by Taliban fighters from all directions.
“There were more bullets in the air than stars in … Read More
“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” – Ronald Reagan… Read More
True story, every morning, I make the bed. (I also wash my own laundry but that’s another story.)
Over the years, my wife has occasionally mentioned this to others at social functions, as if performing such tasks was due to some anomalous male genetic mutation. … Read More
In a moving commentary in Monday’s (May 29), New York Times, Documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick reflect on their ten-year research detailed in an upcoming documentary, The Vietnam War.
“For more than a generation,” Burns and Novick write, “instead of forging a path … Read More
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” – Richard Nixon
“The law’s totally on my side… the president can’t have a conflict of interest.” – Donald Trump
(I couldn’t fit them all in!)
Well, I made it through the wilderness … Read More
Here Rests, In Honored Glory, An American Soldier, Known But To God
– inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldiers, Arlington National Cemetery
Palm Desert, California eighth-grader John Diaz, along with fifty other students, will be visiting Washington D.C. in June for their first … Read More
Heroes are hard to come by. With the death of Lt. General Hal Moore last Friday, the loss is particularly acute given his extraordinary leadership skills.
There are two types of heroes, those who demonstrate physical courage in the face of extreme danger, and those … Read More
