Hitler And The Holocaust
It is hard to imagine that, nearly 65 years after the end of World War II, there are many new secrets to learn about Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. Nevertheless, historians think they might learn...
View ArticleLessons Learned From A Day That Will Live In Infamy
Sixty-eight years ago, the Imperial government of Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack on America’s main Pacific Ocean naval base was just one of many attacks launched by Japan that day, but...
View ArticleThe Pacific
Kish and I have enjoyed The Pacific, the new drama series on HBO. It is extremely well done, and I particularly like the idea of using interviews with actual World War II veterans about the battle...
View ArticleThe Pacific And The Power Of Fine Television
As I mentioned several weeks ago, Kish and I have been hooked on The Pacific, the miniseries on HBO, and we watched it to the end. I thought it was some of the best television I have ever seen. The...
View ArticleThe King’s Speech
Yesterday Kish, Richard and I went to see The King’s Speech. The film is every bit as good as the critics are saying, and maybe better. It is the best movie I have seen in years. The King’s Speech is...
View ArticleEurotrip 2011: Rouen, Le Havre and Paris
Rouen. After Dad left, Roland and I lugged our stuff to the other side of Paris, where we had a reservation at the Peace & Love hostel for two nights. Unfortunately, Roland’s first hostel happened...
View ArticleLessons Of The Lunar Nazis
The hottest ticket at this year’s Berlin Film Festival is a self-proclaimed “B Movie” called Iron Sky. Its consciously over-the-top plot features Nazis trying to conquer Earth from a swastika-shaped...
View ArticleRemembering The Boys Of Pointe du Hoc
Today is the 68th anniversary of D-Day — the Allied invasion of Europe as part of the great campaign to wipe the scourge of Nazism off the face of the Earth and restore peace and democracy. It was a...
View ArticleBuckeye Basketball On A Carrier Deck
Tonight the Ohio State men’s basketball teams kicks off its season with a game against the Marquette Golden Eagles. The game should be especially interesting, and not just because the Buckeyes and...
View ArticleThe Bully Beef Express And Military Insignia On The Door
I meant to post this picture on Veterans’ Day, but forgot. Better late than never! t’s a photo of the door to the USO club, or a room with a similar military theme, in the Bangor, Maine Airport. Each...
View ArticleWhen Churchill And Stalin Hit The Bottle
The BBC has an interesting story about a World War II summit meeting that tells us a bit about how the world has changed, and also, perhaps, about how it hasn’t. The story took place in 1942, when...
View ArticleA Bomber In The Briny Deep
Who knows what treasures lie deep beneath the ocean waves? It seems like every week or so salvage operations are hauling up another interesting relics from the past. The latest is a German bomber that...
View ArticlePost-Apocalyptic
On a pretty little island off the coast of Maine, you would not expect to find a graffiti-scarred, overgrown and abandoned concrete edifice — but on Peaks Island you will find Battery Steele. It’s...
View ArticleThe Rise Of Anti-Semitism In The Eurozone
The BBC has a troubling story about the apparent rise of anti-Semitism in Europe — at least, as expressed in a poll of European Jews. Of the nearly 6,000 people surveyed, two-thirds considered...
View ArticleThe Manhattan Project, The Apollo Space Program, and Healthcare.gov
Today the Obama Administration announced that 106,185 people have “selected” health insurance since the Affordable Care Act took effect on October 1, about 20 percent of the Administration’s stated...
View ArticleCabinet War Rooms
In the late 1930s, when war with Nazi Germany became increasingly certain, an employee of the British government was tasked with developing a safe underground complex from which the British government...
View ArticlePresident Reagan’s D-Day Speeches
Ronald Reagan died 10 years ago today. Some thought he was a great President, others had the opposite view. But almost everyone agrees — whatever you thought of his politics, the man could deliver a...
View ArticleR.I.P. Louis Zamperini
We all hope to live lives that are full and interesting. Louis Zamperini, who died last week at the ripe age of 97, sets a standard to which the rest of us can only aspire. If you’ve read the...
View ArticleThings Have Changed, And Not For The Better
Peggy Noonan has a nice — and thought-provoking — piece in today’s on-line Wall Street Journal about Harry Truman after his presidency ended entitled “Politics in the Modest Age.” I urge you to read...
View ArticleFive Pfennig Found
Some people who buy old houses find treasure — caches of money, bearer bonds, or jewelry squirreled away beneath floorboards, behind a loose block in the basement, or in a secret compartment in the...
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