PFC Harold Buchanan was just 18 years old in 1943. He was on leave for three days to say goodbye to his friends and family in Missouri before being shipped out to WWII. As he drove down the [...]
Thirty years ago today, November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. Built in 1961, it prevented East Berliners from visiting West Berlin, and many died trying to escape the East German Communist [...]
Nearly fifty years ago, a thief broke into the museum at Valley Forge and swiped a rare Revolutionary War gun. The FBI was recently notified that it had been found at a “barn sale” [...]
Lt Mary Jane Healy was a whopping 4’10 1/2″ tall, too short to to be a nurse in the Army, and only weighed 95 pounds. But they needed nurses in WWII, so her file suddenly stated that [...]
James Elliott “Willy” Williams enlisted in the US Navy in 1947 at age 16 with a fraudulent birth certificate. Today he’d have been drummed out of the service and maybe even [...]
The US Navy birthday, established on October 13, 1775 means that today is their 244th birthday. The Continental Congress established the US Navy- which only had two ships meant to intercept [...]
A Georgia teacher is on leave this week for describing the Confederate Battle Flag as an “announcement that you intend to marry your sister.” The Confederate Flag is a symbol of [...]
It was a bittersweet homecoming for the family of US Marine PFC Grady Crawford. It was 70 years since his family received the telegram that he went missing in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir [...]
Today, September 17, is Constitution Day- the day that 39 men signed the document that would become (or is supposed to be) the law of the land in the United States. It is also Citizenship Day [...]
Lauren Bruner was the second to the last man to leave the USS Arizona as the ship began to sink into its fiery death beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor. Only 335 crew members survived out of [...]
