US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who died in 1985, led over 1,000 POWs in refusing to deliver Jewish comrades to German captors The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate. But Master Sgt….
Category: Inspirational
8 Unbelievable Stories from the Second Battle of Fallujah
Veterans from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines share their incredible stories from the Second Battle of Fallujah. This time of year marks the anniversary of one of the most storied battles in recent Marine Corps history: the Second Battle of Fallujah. The city became the scene of brutal urban combat when American, Iraqi, and British forces…
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore After 3 Days of Fighting in the Ia Drang Valley
I found this video clip on You Tube of Lt. Colonel Hal Moore, US Army, made famous by the movie We Were Soldiers. I find clips like this simply amazing…this man had been through 3 days of living hell on earth, close-combat with a determined enemy, and yet, his remarks are as calm and postured…
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Readers!
HOPE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING. MAY WE ALL BE THANKFUL FOR OUR MANY BLESSINGS!
Political Correctness Goes to War on American History
“Where will the impulse to purge the past of its sins end? Should Washington, DC, named after a slave owner, adopt a new title? Should the Jefferson memorial be torn down?” -Jacob Heilbrunn George Orwell once remarked that Stalin’s Soviet Union was a place yesterday’s weather could be changed by decree. America, it seems,…
1,000 Strangers attend Funeral of Marine Vet with No Family
Marine veteran Billy Aldridge had no next of kin when he died, but that didn’t stop his community from coming to pay their respects. On Nov. 17, a Marine veteran received a solemn and dignified funeral as 1,000 strangers made their way past his casket, one by one, to pay their respects. Just one month…
Where Has All The Hatred Gone?
By Mark Stout Carl von Clausewitz offered his “paradoxical trinity” as a tool for thinking about wars and their various manifestations. His trinity was: Composed of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity, which are to be regarded as a blind natural force; of the play of chance and probability within which the creative spirit is free…
21st Century Crusaders: Americans who Volunteer to Fight ISIS with the Peshmerga
“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.” -Winston Churchill, 1940 When I first started reading about these brave men…
Some Closing Prose from a Vet on Veterans Day
I spent the day in quiet reflection. On Veterans and Memorial Day I always make it a point to watch a movie or two that memorializes my heroes….today I watched one about Winston Churchill called “Into the Storm” I highly recommend it for you fellow WW2 buffs..anyways, It got me in a “poetic” mood.-SF Life…
Military History: The ‘Other’ Revolutionary War & The Fall of Fort Sackville
By John Farnam “… in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by strength of arms, our Cause we leave to Heaven, and our rifles!” ~ Hanover Association, Lancaster County, PA, 1774 During the French and Indian Wars of the 1750s and 1760s, many North American Indian tribes had allied…