An interesting historical story.
In 1855, Senator Jefferson Davis got Congress to appropriate $30,000 to purchase camels in the Middle East for use by the Army in the West. The theory was that camels would do better than mules in transporting supplies in the arid area. 33 camels were purchased at an average Read more…
Isaac Woodard was an honorably discharged WWII veteran. He had volunteered for the Army in 1942 and served in a labor battalion in the Pacific Theater. On Feb. 12, 1946, he was riding a Greyhound bus back to his home in North Carolina. When the bus stopped at a Read more…
“The Birth of a Nation” was the first major motion picture and is both famous and infamous. It was directed by D.W. Griffith. The cinematography is astounding. The film features “panoramic long shots, iris effects, still shots, night photography, panning shots, and color tinting”. The burning of Atlanta has surreal Read more…
Stanislov Petrov was born on September 7, 1939. His father had been a fighter pilot and his mother was a nurse. Naturally, he went into the military. On Sept. 26, 1983, he was on duty in a bunker near Moscow. Lt. Col. Petrov was in charge of the nuclear Read more…
Andree de Jongh was 23 years-old when Belgium was conquered by the Germans. She was a nurse at the time. Since her personal hero was Edith Cavell, a nurse who helped Allied soldiers escape from the German occupation in WWI, she decided to join the resistance. She and her Read more…
The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of at least 6 million Jews over a period of 6 years. But the worst single event in WWII has to be the “Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)”. After the Japanese army captured Shanghai, it moved on to Nanking. The Chinese army barely put Read more…
Gouverneur Morris was one of America’s Founding Fathers. He was called the “Penman of the Constitution” because he wrote the Preamble. It was he that led off the document with “We the People…” He was a great man who suffered bodily throughout his life. As a boy, half of Read more…
The US began Operation Rolling Thunder in 1966. This was the bombing of North Vietnam, mainly by F-105 fighter bombers. The Thunderchief (Thud) was a durable plane which came in handy because it was targeted by anti-aircraft guns, SAM missiles, and MiG-21’s. The North Vietnamese had most of the Read more…
Carrie was born in 1846. Her family had a history of mental illness. Her mother was delusional and she spent her last few years in a mental asylum. Carrie’s first marriage was to an alcoholic who her family tried to warn her about, but she was in love with Read more…
The winter of 1914 came after unimagined bloodshed on the Western front. In spite of that, there was still some humanity left. In places, fraternization was common. Fraternization was when opposing soldiers would agree not to kill each other for periods of time so they could have brief periods Read more…