Music/Film Videos Archives - Veterans' Tales

Memorial Day Tribute to the Shoulders We Stand On

Posted by: Vassar

I’ve published an annual Memorial Day tribute to our fallen for several years. I think military brass just doesn’t capture the solemnity of what Memorial Day stands for. So, this year I’ve added a more sober musical montage, which you can use as the situation dictates.

These are not smart marching tunes, but sober reminders of the men, and now women, who have gone before us, many of them giving that last full measure for causes no other military have done in ...

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25
MAY
2019

Front Page, Music/Film Videos, Readers' Tales

Road to Freedom

Posted by: Vassar

The album was entitled #16, (1963) and inspired by none other than John F Kennedy, a Democrat.

Go Figure

It was the last album of theirs I ever bought.

I wonder if the words will work today?

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5
MAY
2019

Music/Film Videos, Readers' Tales

“Send Me”, Isaiah, Chapter 6

Posted by: Vassar

If you haven’t seen “Fury”, it’s an Alamo-type story of a WWII tank crew sent to hold a crossroads to protect against a German counterattack. The other tanks in their team were destroyed along the way, and theirs, “Fury”, had broken down having lost a track.

When an SS battalion was spied marching up the road, instead of heading to the boondocks, they decide to stay and hold the crossroads.

It’s a battle royale.

This scene is just before the battle begins, as they sit ...

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27
DEC
2018

Army, Front Page, Music/Film Videos, Readers' Tales, WWII

The Death of Ernie Pyle’s Captain Wascow, the Film Version 1945

Posted by: Vassar

William Wellman was an Academy Award-winning Hollywood director, especially of some of the most memorable westerns and war classics, A Star is Born, Beau Geste (Gary Cooper) Ox-Bow Incident (Henry Fonda) Battleground (Van Johnson) Across the Wide Missouri (Clark Gable) High and the Mighty and Blood Alley (John Wayne) Darby’s Rangers (James Garner.)

In 1945 he directed “The Story of G I Joe” based on the published story by Ernie Pyle “The Death of Captain Wascow”, 1944, a much-loved-by-his-troops company commander, Henry Wascow, who was ...

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2
DEC
2018

Army, Music/Film Videos, Readers' Tales, WWII

Soldier’s Pledge, Ronald Reagan, Our New Home Banner

Posted by: Vassar

Thanks to our sponsor, Mike Collins, veteran of the Vietnam and the 11th Infantry Brigade, this speech by Ronald Reagan will become the home banner of our home website, VeteransUSA 15:13 Foundation, once we raise the money to finish the legal work. In progress.

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24
JUL
2018

Music/Film Videos, Readers' Tales

Ronald Reagan

John Wayne Sings “God Bless America”. Yes, “sings”

Posted by: Vassar

(From a regular contributor, Mike Collins, 1th Infantry Brigade, RVN ’67-’68, Spec4 11-Charlie mortarman. You may have to look in the Beer Tent from time to time, His old unit passes these around.)

1970, just a short 50 years ago, when some students, some professors and some politicians were already spitting on soldiers.

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5
JUN
2018

Music/Film Videos, Short shorts, Viet Nam

Roger Moore reads Rudyard Kipling’s “Tommy Adkins”

Posted by: Vassar

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13
MAY
2018

Kipling's British, Music/Film Videos

Zulu War, 1879, Rorke’s Drift, Final Battle (Film “Zulu”)

Posted by: Vassar

Zulu War, 1879. Rorke’s Drift was small station with a missionary hospital. 150 soldiers, including hospital patients defended the station against 3000-4000 Zulus. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours.

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7
MAY
2018

Kipling's British, Music/Film Videos, Readers' Tales

Film, Rorke's Drift, Zule War, Zulu