My Dad always said he got his “college education” in the U.S. Army. He was drafted at the start of WWII and later served in Korea, rising to the rank of Captain. Horse Calvary When he was drafted, he was sent to the last remaining horse calvary unit at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he began […]
Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, was born in Missouri, near where I grew up, and presided over some incredible times in our history, which he handled very well in retrospect. Sworn in Suddenly Upon FDR’s Death “I was sworn in one night, and the next morning I had to dig […]
In his book Para(graph) Trooper for MacArthur, my father talks about taking the first group of correspondents into Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb. The dropping of the bomb caused Japan to surrender in World War II. Why is This Important? I’m writing at a time when we’ve seen increased tensions in the […]