On the evening of 5 Mar 1770, a mob of colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston and began taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by...
The Reserve Officer Training Corps’ four-decade exile from Harvard University sort of ends today with an agreement that was spurred by a congressional vote allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Harvard President Faust and Navy...
MSG Toni Jaffe’s job with the California Army National Guard was to give away money; from 1986 until she retired last year she disbursed the federally subsidized student-loan repayments and cash bonuses that are for attracting new recruits and...
During the agreed upon truce during the Tet (lunar new year) celebration in 1968 the No Vietnamese attacked everywhere across South Vietnam. They achieved initial successes but were quickly beat down. I was a rifle company commander in the 101st...
On 23 Feb 1991, during the Gulf War, ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground phase of the war. The ground ops lasted 100 hours before Saddam gave up. Just maybe we should have kept going and taken him...
For this I fought and my men died? During the demonstrations in WI protesting the newly elected governor’s plan to reduce the cost of government workers, many of the protesters were/are teachers. But teachers in that state can’t legally strike...
We military folks pledge to support and defend the Constitution of the US. One big reason the Constitution places restrictions on Congress is to give the states room to experiment with social & economic policy, like they have been doing in...
US foreign policy seems to be that we’re at war with our allies. President O has done so much to offend England that he isn’t invited to the royal wedding. We’ve offended Israel more in the past 14 months than in all of that...
On 15 Feb1942, in one of the greatest defeats in British military history, Britain’s supposedly impregnable Singapore fortress fell to the Japanese after a week-long siege. More than 60,000 British, Australian, and Indian troops became POW, joining...
There are a number of versions of the legend of St. Valentine; this is my favorite: On February 14 around the year 278 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed. Under the rule of Claudius the Cruel...