New post up at Liberty Unyielding. More than you’ve seen anywhere else about this amazing old veteran. Enjoy!
A lesson in character: ‘Hands up’ protesters disrupt medal ceremony for 100-year-old WWII vet
Character.
Tag: World War II
D-Day: Three presidents, one of the great battles of history, and the heart and task of a nation
Scaling cliffs with the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
Memorial Day and the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944
Never forget.
A Pearl Harbor survivor story
Being transformed by the renewal of our minds.
I didn’t mean to be at the computer so late this evening. But if I hadn’t been, I wouldn’t have seen this story.
It’s a simple story (even if every one of us knows that no one’s story is really simple). It’s a sailor’s story. A vet’s story. If you’ve ever served in uniform, you can imagine being there.
It starts in uncompromising fashion:
After signing my Pop, EM2 Bud Cloud (circa Pearl Harbor) up for hospice care, the consolation prize I’d given him Continue reading “A Pearl Harbor survivor story”
Facts and implications: Notes on Diana West’s American Betrayal
Fact: Stalin’s Soviet agents. Implication about WWII?
What are the implications of the extensively documented fact that agents of the Soviet government were employed in high positions in the United States government in the 1930s and 1940s? Do we have a skewed view of World War II because we have failed to address that question? If our perspective changed, would we judge that we didn’t even win World War II – but, to be more accurate, Stalin did?
Diana West’s remarkable new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, compiles some potential answers to these questions. As West argues early in the book, Continue reading “Facts and implications: Notes on Diana West’s American Betrayal”
The Optimistic Conservative 