60-year-old Bernell Trammell owned a small store in Milwaukee. He was kind man, well liked in his neighborhood, a religious man who did some street preaching. He was also a Trump supporter. That got him murdered. This is a man who worshiped G-d and a man of faith. You can [Read More]
(reposted by request) Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass.Let me work. – Carl Sandburg ; One hundred and fifty five years ago today, brave men fought in and around a small town in Pennsylvania to determine [Read More]
Veterans Tales by Vassar Bushmills March 29, 2019 is Vietnam Veterans Day. Those veterans, called Baby Boomers, all recognize these Hollywood stars who served in the military during World War II. It’s called a handshake. Obviously this is not the America of today that it was seventy years ago when [Read More]
Veterans’ Tales by Vassar Bushmills From our friend Mike Collins and his pals: (Note: My wife’s uncle Phillip was one of those Marines. Her father was oder and served on a tin can in the Phillipine Sea but saw no real action. He always looked up to his baby brother [Read More]
Veterans’ Tales by Vassar Bushmills “Ok boys, put some clothes on those girls. We’re going home!” Apparently no one worried about nose art on the bombers…over there. (I don’t know who originally wrote this, but it was provided by one of our regular contributors, Ray Kasey, of New Jersey. Did you know that more [Read More]
Veterans’ Tales by Vassar Bushmills They’ve often claimed that Economics is the dreariest science, but for men in uniform you’d have to go some to match the drudgery of pouring over miles and miles of pages and pages of personnel files and the rules and regs that define them. In the [Read More]
Vassar Bushmills Since its inception, VeteransTales.org has been movinging toward the establishment of a teaching program for veterans in order to fill in the growing gap between modern education in America’s schools about America’s history, and the reasons America was created in the first place. It takes only three generations for those things to [Read More]
Vassar Bushmills Apparently almost every president had a foreign policy doctrine. One even got it’s own teaching bloc in public schools, at least until the 1980s. It was called the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that the US would use force to repel foreign (mostly European) incursions into the western hemisphere. [Read More]
Vassar Bushmills William Wellman was an Academy Award-winning Hollywood director, especially of some of the most memorable westerns and war classics, A Star is Born, Beau Geste (Gary Cooper) Ox-Bow Incident (Henry Fonda) Battleground (Van Johnson) Across the Wide Missouri (Clark Gable) High and the Mighty and Blood Alley (John Wayne) Darby’s Rangers [Read More]
Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights is celebrated this week. While many of you may be familiar with the story of the Miracle of the Oil, the truth is that Hanukkah really celebrates another miracle – the miracle of a group of untrained farmers and tradesman with hardly any arms or [Read More]
Veterans’ Tales by Vassar The other morning one of our local radio personalities was pitching a fancy restaurant in the Richmond area, and he proudly announced that their most popular entre was chipped beef on toast. A ten dollar platter these days, and whudda thunk it? People paying ten dollars for [Read More]
Rick Rescorla spent his entire life fighting evil and 17 years ago today, that fight culminated with his saving thousands of lives, but losing his own. This is the final entry in my annual commemoration of three victims of 9/11, each of whom died a hero, facing down evil, facing [Read More]
This post honors Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas, one of the heroes who saved America from an even worse disaster than the attack on the Twin Towers. True immortality being the Divine’s purview, we humans are limited to only two types: genetics and remembrance. It is the latter that concerns me. Every [Read More]
To properly honor the dead, we must remember them — and Lt. Brian Ahearn, a New York City firefighter, is someone whom I honor every year on September 11. Every year on September 11, for the past 12 years, I’ve reprinted the memorial posts I wrote for Lt. Brian Ahearn, [Read More]
Veterans’ Tales by Vassar Bushmills I just saw a memorial by a lady whose 98- year old mother had just passed, a young 24 year old, with a baby, when her husband shipped out. My own mother passed away two years ago, age 94, and when my dad shipped, she [Read More]
Vassar Bushmills As you already know, I’m the garritrooper in this outfit, “too far forward to wear a tie, and too far to the rear to get shot at.” But that doesn’t mean that I don’t know some things about wading in muck up to my elbows, sleeping on hard [Read More]
Vassar Bushmills (This is a set-up piece, a prelude, as to why we need a corps of veterans out there teaching young kids about America. Like any military exercise, we have to 1) know the objective and 2) and know the size and power of the obstacles out there laying out there to keep [Read More]
Whatever else you might think of Tommy Robinson, he’s no coward. Here he literally takes apart a sleazy ‘journalist’ named James King, who is a photographer and/or reporter for the UK Daily Mail. King tracked down Tommy Robinson and his family in Tenerife, where they were on holiday while Tommy [Read More]
Vassar Bushmills We began this conversation a couple of weeks ago, when we pointed out that 90% of Americans have invested none of their own skin in this game that is called “Keeping America Alive.” Even my generation, the last to know the military draft, which was never natural to the American [Read More]
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass.Let me work. – Carl Sandburg One hundred and fifty five years ago today, brave men fought in and around a small town called Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to determine whether the [Read More]
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