Kissed by an Angel, Where Violins are the Angels’ Voices, and the Cello Sings Harmony
Army CW2 Jonathan R Farmer, 37, of Florida, and
Navy Chief Cryptographic Technician, 35, of New York and
DoD Civilian, Scott Wirtz, age, home-of-record unknown,
were killed 16 January in Manbij, Syria by a suicide bomber.,
Rest in peace, Gentlemen
Job well done.
A mourning nation thanks you.
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They’ve often claimed that Economics is the dreariest science, but for men in uniform you’d have to go some to match the drudgery of pouring over miles and miles of pages and pages of personnel files and the rules and regs that define them.
In the Army of the 60s-and 70s, before reorganization, it was called G-1, then DCSPER (Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel) and that was where they kept the records of every trooper. His 201-file, which he carried when he ...
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Since its inception, VeteransTales.org has been movinging toward the establishment of a teaching program for veterans in order to fill in the growing gap between modern education in America’s schools about America’s history, and the reasons America was created in the first place.
It takes only three generations for those things to be lost to a culture, and we’re about halfway there.
I set this process of disintegration out in an earlier piece, “Conservatism, Those Other Guys, and the Vetetans”.
When the Soviet Union fell ...
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(Associated Press) CHICAGO — World War II fighter pilot John Lyle, a Tuskegee Airman, has died at the age of 98.Lyle died Saturday at his home on Chicago’s South Side, his wife, Eunice, said Monday. She added that Lyle had been battling prostate cancer.
The ...
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In October I promised you a second case-story about rape, the first story trying to give you some sort of idea about why neither good cops nor defense lawyers will take a female victim’s word as gospel.
This next case in about a rape charge that highlighted the difference in legal cultures (Japan and the United States) and the bias against foreign criminals there which I’ve never seen in America in my lifetime.
In March, I think, 1974, Mrs Minami showed in a ...
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Below is Bookworm Room‘s latest review, about the acclaimed World War I British documentary film, “They Shall Not Grow Old” directed and produced by Peter Jackson. Jackson directed the “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy.
Presented by Fandom Events and Warner Bros., “They Shall Not Grow Old” had only two play dates with a total of four showings i.e., December 17th and December 27th. According to PR Newswire, the movie was a box office success ...
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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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Russians and Democrats are not the same. I’ve actually known honorable Russians.
In 1991 I met a man from the USSR named Valentin Suchkov. I was working with a Ukrainian trading company in Cincinnati. Mr Suchkov was leading a trade delegation from Gorkiy, the famous “closed city” and the internal exile home of the Soviet refusenik, Andrei Sakharov, who had only died the year before in Moscow. I was told that Mr Suchkov headed an oil and gas company in Russia and using the trading company ...
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Department of Defense.gov by Katie Lange
Page was born in 1904 in the U.S.-governed Philippines, but he grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. His dream of attending West Point was thwarted by poor eyesight, so he went to Princeton instead, where ...
