by Gordon Lease Ex-Boatswains Mate, US Coast Guard I Remember Barry, South Wales I was 17 when the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, I enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and was involved in rescue and anti-submarine patrol until early 1943 when I was assigned to Landing Ship, Tanks (LSTs). ...
Like it or not, America is a global superpower that keeps world peace in equilibrium. It is our solemn duty to be intimately involved with all nations. Aggressors need to be forestalled, and other nations need to be buoyed up to strengthen them as...
Historians have speculated that if the South had won the Civil War, they would annexed Mexico eventually. Because of trouble with the bandit Pancho Villa, in 1914 John “Black Jack” Pershing began to patrol the border with Mexico. The following year he led an...
America was once part of the British Empire. So was Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and a large part of the planet. The Empire spread civilization to far-flung parts...
Nancy Pelosi led an important (?) delegation to Afghanistan over Mothers Day. What a comfort that must have been to our troops! Four Democratic women were with Pelosi on...
Alan B. Walker of Rapid City is the author of Every Warrior Has His Own Song, which reveals that he “was born and raised on the Winnebago Indian Reservation...
