I'm a big World War II history buff, both of my grandfathers served -- one in the Army Air Corps, the other in the Marines -- and I must confess that one of the major holes in my pretty extensive reading was the Bataan Death March and the Japanese occupation of the Phillippines. "Ghost Soldiers" […]
Lt. Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, a WWII Marine ace and Medal of Honor awardee, isn't "the sort of person UW (the University of Washington) wanted to produce. The University of Washington's student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus Gregory "Pappy" Boyington of "Black Sheep Squadron" fame amid concerns a military hero who shot down enemy […]
Col. Janis Karpinski, the one-time general whose supervisorial failures were revealed to the world when the infamous Abu Ghraib photos came out, is making the anti-Iraq War rounds peddling a new lie. Several female service members have died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day due to fear of being […]
It looks like the law which requires colleges and universities to allow military recruiters the same access to campus as private employers receives will be upheld by the Supreme Court. The law, referred to as the Solomon Amendment, allows the government to punish educational institutions which do not comply with the law by pulling hundreds […]
Alfred Anderson, reportedly the last surviving witness/participant in the World War I Christmas truce died today. If you're at all interested in the intriguing event, I encourage you to check out Stanley Weintraub's excellent book on the truce and its aftermath.
This is a couple of weeks old, but I only saw it Saturday, so it's new to me. Warning, make sure you have tissue available before you start reading this story about Marines who are tasked with notifying loved-ones that their brother/sister/son/daughter has been killed overseas.
Today's inspiring Veterans Day story comes to us courtesy of the Detroit News. Read it.
The editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer could learn a thing or two dozen from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. While the P-I is more than satisfied to reprint Joseph Wilson's lies "because he was the best person to know," the Post-Dispatch did some serious and critical reporting on a former Marine staff sergeant who is going […]