Friday, October 24, 2014

October 25, 1944: Where Is Task Force 34? The World Wonders

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Japan was in dire straits. Her navy fast disappearing. But it was not in disarray. Far from it. As US forces assaulted the Phillipines at Le...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

The Election Is Here

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Last Tuesday, the Pamlico County Board of Elections met to review the 32 absentee ballots by mail submitted so far. This is more than normal...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

What Are Republicans Up To? Tom Edsall Knows

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I want to share the following quote from the New York Times columnist, Tom Edsall: "Democrats today convey only minimal awareness of ...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Seventy Years Ago: October 5, 1944 - Audie Murphy Gets Another Silver Star

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Soldiers and sailors mostly understand that success in war involves a lot of luck. Who survives and who doesn't may depend on a slight d...

The Big Lie Technique in Action A Century Ago

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Last August I published the link to an extract from Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August concerning the burning of Louvain in Belgium by Ge...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Antidote To Fear: FDR Address To Congress January 6, 1941

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I remember 1941. My father was in the US Army Air Corps, stationed at what became McDill Air Force Base in Tampa. When we went to a movie,...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

A Century Ago: Battles In Picardy; Beginning Of Trench Warfare

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The pre-war German plan wasn't working. Belgium was supposed to have stood aside and let the Germans pass. It didn't happen. That...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Another Day At Arnhem: A Bridge Really Too Far - September 19, 1944; Some Heroic Tales

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Anyone who has ever seen the movie, "A Bridge Too Far," knows something of the heroics of British, Polish and American paratrooper...