Russo-Ukrainian War: Where Do We Stand As the Conflict Enters Its Third Year?
On February 24, 2024, the Russo-Ukrainian War entered its third year. In what became the largest assault on a European nation since the Second World...
Read MoreEmbracing a Former Enemy at Pearl Harbor, It Was Official. The War Was Over.
During the first week of December 1991, my wife, Lin, and I met our friend Richard Fiske for dinner at the Chart House in Honolulu, Hawaii, as we had...
Read MoreUnexploded World War II-Era Bomb Found In British Woman’s Garden
1000’s of citizens ended up forced to evacuate just after a father performing in his daughter’s backyard in Plymouth uncovered a bomb...
Read MoreShort Changed: Military Women Face Assault, Harassment, Death. Is Culture to Blame?
This article is part of Short Changed, a series looking at the noncombat deaths of women going back to 9/11. During her last visit home, Army Pfc....
Read MoreHardest Geezer & The Shade Of Ewart Grogan
Russ Cook is a a person of all those Englishmen — as in, “only mad canine and Englishmen go out in the midday sunshine.” From UltraX: Russ...
Read MoreLast Surviving Crew Member of the USS Arizona (BB-39) Dead At 102
The very last survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona (BB-39) on December 7, 1941, has died. Lou Conter, 102, was a US Navy sailor assigned to the...
Read MoreIn the Shadow of Iwo Jima We Found Camaraderie and Peace With Grandsons of the Enemy
I landed on Iwo Jima for the first time in 1998. I was a young Marine sergeant serving as an infantry squad leader during a six-month deployment to...
Read MoreThe Battle of Athens Saw Armed War Veterans Take On Corruption in Their Local Government
In the article-war summer months of 1946, the modest city of Athens, Tennessee grew to become the epicenter of an party that went down in record as...
Read MoreHolding On To The West
Mi compadre Craig Rullman and son-in-regulation Jarod Gatley strike the highway this early morning for Salmon, Idaho, for the crucial shoot for...
Read MoreShort Changed: No Justice at Fort Hood for Another Woman Soldier and a Commander Who Tried to Help
This article is part of Short Changed, a series looking at the noncombat deaths of women going back to 9/11. A couple of months after Spc. Vanessa...
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