As last fall’s California wildfires demonstrated, the demand for aerial firefighters and the dangers they face have never been greater The world’s first practical firebomber was a Stearman, a 1939 Boeing … Read More
In November 2019 Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Remove the Stain Act, which seeks to strip the Medal of Honor from 20 soldiers who received the … Read More
The Lawman and Real Lawmen More often than not when I do my enjoyable duty and read about Old West marshals, sheriffs and the like, it triggers a tune from … Read More
Captain Charles Meinhold may well have hoped to complete his assignment without incident as he led the sweat-stained troopers of Company B, 3rd U.S. Cavalry, plodding methodically across the monotonous … Read More
North American tribal people have dealt with the complex issue of cross-border migration since the mid-19th century, negotiating boundaries set by treaties between the United States and Mexico to the … Read More
An Arapaho keeps vigil for “Distant Enemies.” Held where California coastal breezes wash up and over live oaks and black sage atop canyon walls that sweep down to the pounding … Read More
Nothing epitomizes the disastrous Cuba policy of the United States better than the abortive, three-day, failed Bay of Pigs invasion conducted by anti-Castro Cuban exiles in April 1962. In the … Read More
In 1945, the newly fielded U.S. 10th Mountain Division battled the enemy and the elements in Italy’s Northern Apennines. ON A WINTRY DAY in Italy in the final months of … Read More
George Grosz and Adolf Hitler were equally traumatized by Germany’s defeat—but they coped in wildly divergent ways. One afternoon in or around 1920, during the nascent days of Germany’s Weimar … Read More
The airman stayed behind so that others might live. William and Irene Pitsenbarger’s visit to the Pentagon on Sept. 22, 1966, was full of mixed emotions. Their son, Airman 1st Class … Read More
