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What do you find interesting or unique about your family history? My daddy's mother, Lila, was imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II. She was Polish and was 19 whenever her town was raided and burned. She survived a bayonet stab in the camp with the help of a little old lady and a...
After a lazy Sunday it's a rainy Monday. It has been raining and/or dark clouds ever since I got up this morning which tends to make me want to continue one lazy day into the next, but I can't. Well not completely at least, things have seemed to run a bit slower than average today :-) What seems...
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- The black airmen whose lives will be the basis of a George Lucas movie know the picture will highlight their record of successfully escorting thousands of U.S. bombers in World War II. George Lucas' new film "Red Tails" will go beyond what was covered in a 1995 HBO film...
MONDAY JUNE 16, 2008 Last modified: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:35 PM CDT Strausbaugh Named To Hall Of Fame by John M. Galer "Rangers lead the way," an Army motto since World War II, could still best describe an elite group of men inducted into the US Army Ranger Hall of Fame, Wednesday, June 11, 2008...
First-person pov. The farthest back I can remember is being on this island thing where Mike had to play a survival game. There's a bunch of people on this undeveloped island about the size of a kid's soccer field. Hardly enough room for the group there. I don't know what's going on until this...
This comes from http://asmba.typepad.com/veterans/ Posted by Joe Dougherty the Vice-President of the Armed Services Mutual Benefit Association and a retired Air Force Colonel who has served in numerous leadership positions on active duty at the squadron, group, wing, numbered air force, and MAJCOM...
Military News Raiders commemorate D-DAY; spirit of the American Soldier By Staff Sgt. Brent Williams, 1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B Jun 9, 2008 - 12:11:40 PM Blackanthem Military News On June 4, 1944, U.S. Soldiers embarked upon amphibious landing crafts and assaulted a series of objectives:...
Ernie Pyle's third column might have been the most powerful of the three...Freedom is not free, it is secured for us by men and women willing to sacrifice everything... Column 3 by Ernie Pyle... A Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, June 17, 1944 - In the preceding column we told...
I was about to get down to the nitty-gritty of the Ike-Kay love affair (fact or fancy); but it is D-Day, so let’s talk about war, not love. Why are you reading WWII? So you know to whom we should show our appreciation; those who gave their lives and those who went through hell and survived (John...
I just finished a book that I recently picked up in the airport. Looking for an entertaining read, I found one of my favorite authors, Elizabeth Berg, had released her latest book in paperback..."Dream When You're Feeling Blue." Set in 1940's wartime, the Heaney sisters correspond with their...
Show us the historical figure with whom you'd most like to trade places. Franklin D. Roosevelt, our 32nd President. I wouldn't necessarily want to trade places with him, but I would have loved to meet him. When I was a child, my Grandfather, an electrician in the Navy and WWII veteran, sparked my...
I got tagged by a new neighbor, I have not done this one before and I find myself quite bored at the moment. Haha! So here we go. 1. What were you doing 10 years ago? that would make it 1998, I was a few months away from celebrating my 1st year wedding anniversary. I was working m butt off at Value...
Eisenhower knew Harry Butcher [CBS vice president] before the War, and Ike got him transferred from Navy to be his personal aid. Butcher's My Three Years with Eisenhower [his war time diary] is a cannot-put-it-down book (Algiers, 12/12/42) “Ike’s brother Milton and Beetle [Ike’s chief of...
Are there really such things as coincidences? Tonight I am going to see the local "All Robbins" program at the ballet, which features Fancy Free. While I understand the historic significance of this work, frankly I never have been able to enjoy it. I've been reading the Deborah Jowitt biography of...
It is perfect fitting to recount, using Churchill’s pen (he devoted a chapter—The Fate of the ‘Bismarck’—in his The Second World War, Volume 3; the Battle of Denmark Strait, the sinking of German’s Bismarck), on the Memorial Day weekend of 1941. Memorial Day was also on May 26th (Monday)...
As we prepare for Memorial Day, I think about those men & women who have served our country in times of war, and who have tragically been lost. However you feel about war, I think it is important to say a prayer & take a moment to remember those who have fought & those who fight today. When I think...
I am somewhat hesitated to use this title lest you would think General Patton was a man short in brain; far from it. When he took Kay Summersby and Ruth Brigg [one of Women’s Army Corp, the secretary of General Walter Smith, Ike’s chief of staff] for a sight-seeing tour in Sicily. Kay wrote in...
I learned quite a few things about Dan Chan at his funeral last Wednesday in the eulogy delivered by historian Dr James Ng. Dan was born in China in 1907 but was educated in Australia, where his father worked, from 13—both at a state school in NSW and Scotch College in Melbourne. This was, as...
On the way to the office this morning I was listening to WQED as always, I sat in the car in the parking lot for many minutes as there was a sad and yet beautiful music (violin) playing. Being an ignoramus in music, I can be at times moved by certain music that evokes a sad feeling and yet long for...
Appeasement is the name given to what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in September 1938. Rather than fight Germany in another great war -- to keep 3.5 million Germans under a Czech rule they despised -- he agreed to their peaceful transfer to German rule. With these Germans went the lands their...
