Photo: 9/11 Healing Field, Tempe, AZ We’re 20 years in now, yet sometimes it feels like yesterday. Anyone who was older than a toddler at the time will remember that day and the days that followed, where we were when we heard about the planes in NY, DC and Pennsylvania, and the emotions that stunned… Read More
It’s Memorial Day 2021… so what are you thinking about today? Maybe you’re excited to be hosting your first backyard cookout in a over a year. Maybe you’re relaxing on the beach, visiting a National Park, flying out to be with family or spending a quiet day by the backyard pool. Whatever our journey’s-end this… Read More
More than one hundred years ago the Grand Canyon was officially protected by Teddy Roosevelt when he declared it a National Monument, and in my opinion it’s among the most amazing. After visiting in 1903, Teddy Roosevelt stated “Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now. You cannot improve on it. But what… Read More
A Pearl Harbor Remembrance, Memories of an Unassuming Sailor. The article below ‘How a Piece of Shrapnel Changed My Father’s Life‘ by John Stark, was first printed in 2013 and republished last year on the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. We posted it on our blog several years ago but I came… Read More
I had something else scheduled for Thank You Thursday this morning but then I watched the Pope’s address on Capitol Hill. Whether or not you are of his faith, whether or not you thought you’d care, whether or not your politics are his (and there is without a doubt, politics involved in these things), you… Read More
Posted: By Jeff Grant, DAILY NEWS-SUN PEORIA, Ariz. — Benjamin Haber recalls the details fairly easily. The Peoria resident and World War II veteran, now 90, remembers how the U.S. Army’s 5th Infantry Division was working its way across western Germany one day. “We were told we would face only light artillery. Over 200 pieces… Read More
Watch this video and let me know what you think. What did you think before watching? ~Bill Published time: October 30, 2014 18:59 Edited time: October 31, 2014 16:44 Via RT.com Still from YouTube video Aliens, some as old as 200 years, are real and have visited Earth, a former Lockheed Martin senior scientist has… Read More
I don’t mean to be snarky but after 13 years these stories are no less sad, no less infuriating, and they will remain so until there are no more stories. ~Bill Article by: ULA ILNYTZKY , Associated Press in the Star Tribune Photo: Stan Honda, Associated Press / Star Tribune photo galleries 3 retired… Read More
Below is a link to the American Legion application for the ‘Ambassador for Peace Medal’. Ambassador for Peace Medal Application From the Battle Creek Enquirer: The Embassy of the Republic of South Korea is looking for Korean War veterans to honor them for their service and friendship. If you are a veteran from the Korean… Read More
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