“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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 Read more…
Did you know there was a unit of American soldiers who fought against the US in one of its wars? That unit was the Saint Patrick’s Battalion in the Mexican War. In 1846, the US declared war on Mexico Read more…
The movie “Patton” made Patton’s prayer famous, but it was not entirely accurate. In December, 1944 Gen. George Patton’s Third Army was in Belgium participating in the Saar Campaign. Patton had become famous for his hard-charging style, but the Read more…