Little Akio
The teacher said, “Let’s begin by reviewing some American History. Who said ‘Give me Liberty , or give me Death’?“ She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Little Akio, a bright foreign exchange student from Japan, who had…
Samuel Alexander Armas: Hand of Hope
A 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas was operated on in his mother’s womb by surgeon Joseph Bruner
Montana Storms
Photographs by Sean Heavy, Glasgow, Montana (for story, see Mail Online) Photographer Sean Heavey, has been taking storm pictures in Montana since 2007. An electrician by trade, Mr. Heavey is an amateur photographer.
9/11 – The largest evacuation by boat in history
In nine hours, boats streaming in from all over the Northeast evacuated 500,000 people trapped on Manhattan Island by the complete shutdown of all trains and bridges in the wake of the fall of the twin towers. (Compare that with…
Tennessee Football
This statement was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee by school Principal, Jody McLeod: It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a…
Monte Carlo Demolition Derby
This is not a normal topic but we couldn’t resist it. – Ed How do you do a demolition derby in downtown Monte Carlo and still come out looking good? She goes for a little drive in his shiny blue…
Burial at Sea
by LtCol George Goodson, USMC (Ret) In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a series of vignettes. Some were significant; most were trivial… War is the seminal event in the…
The Passing of Frank Buckles
by Thomas Conner, Ph.D., William P. Harris Professor of Military History, Hillsdale College The United States lost its last surviving veteran of the First World War on February 28, 2011. Frank Buckles, of Charles Town, West Virginia, passed away just…
The Song of Hiawatha – Selected Chapters
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from U of Virginia Library and Longfellow poems Introduction Should you ask me, Whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling…