Memorial Day 2023: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Memorial Day 2023: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

On Memorial Day it is fitting to honor the fallen by reading the works of wartime poets. And no one wrote of war and death like the soldiers of Great Britain during World War I.

Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Marks 100 Years Of Honor

Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Marks 100 Years Of Honor

On this Veterans Day in 1921, an unknown soldier of World War I was given a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, and laid to rest in…

WWI Film Triggers Whiny GQ Sex Writer

WWI Film Triggers Whiny GQ Sex Writer

The film 1917, set in World War I, has already won two Golden Globe awards, for best drama and best director. Now the WWI movie is in the Oscar…

A Moment Of Peace: The Christmas Truce Of World War I

A Moment Of Peace: The Christmas Truce Of World War I

For one remarkable period of time, peace reigned on the battlefields of World War I. 

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Bladensburg Cross

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Bladensburg Cross

The Bladensburg Cross, a World War I memorial to 49 soldiers of Prince Georges County, Maryland, will be allowed to remain standing. The United States Supreme Court…

Maryland Peace Cross Case To Be Heard At Supreme Court

Maryland Peace Cross Case To Be Heard At Supreme Court

You can file this one under “Destruction of Common Culture”. Or you can file this under gutting the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme…

Peter Jackson Creates Brilliant Tribute to WWI Soldiers

Peter Jackson Creates Brilliant Tribute to WWI Soldiers

Peter Jackson, the New Zealand producer and film director, created what I believe to be his most splendid opus yet. However, it didn’t involve Hobbits, or Rings,…

Armistice Remembrance at the National WWI Museum

Armistice Remembrance at the National WWI Museum

On November 11, it will be 100 years since the Armistice — that event when on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”…

Why Red Poppies on Memorial Day?

Why Red Poppies on Memorial Day?

You may see them in front of your supermarket or at a small town parade, elderly men and women handing out red paper poppies. I strongly suspect…

BuzzFeed Writer Wonders If the Red Baron Flew a Nazi Plane [VIDEO]

BuzzFeed Writer Wonders If the Red Baron Flew a Nazi Plane [VIDEO]

It sure doesn’t take much to trigger the BuzzFeed staff these days. Especially those who are really ignorant of history. Case in point: Leticia Miranda, BuzzFeed consumer reporter, wondered…

Crisis And Terror In Europe? Time To Golf For Obama! [VIDEO]

Crisis And Terror In Europe? Time To Golf For Obama! [VIDEO]

Lame duck President Obama is on his last taxpayer-funded Hawaiian vacation for Christmas. As we were relentlessly reminded during the campaign, the office of the Presidency requires…

Trump Tells False Story about World War I General Pershing

Trump Tells False Story about World War I General Pershing

On the night before the South Carolina primary, Donald Trump decided to toss some red meat to his storm troopers by relating a little history lesson about…

100th Anniversary of Armenian Holocaust: Obama Still Refuses to Call It Genocide

100th Anniversary of Armenian Holocaust: Obama Still Refuses to Call It Genocide

April 24 marks the 100th anniversary of a genocide of which few people are aware, and President Obama would rather be overlooked. It is the anniversary of…

Kerry wants to aspire to Kellogg’s legacy-An end to war

Recently my mother has been doing quite a bit of geneological research. One of the more noteworthy people she has found in our family tree is a…

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