This is the grave of Maxwell Taylor. Born in 1901 in Keytesville, Missouri, a tiny town in the north central part of the state, Taylor was lucky enough to grow up in Kansas City, a far less horrible place for a talented young boy. He...
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This is the grave of Melvin Laird. Born in 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska, Laird grew up in Marshfield, Wisconsin and attended high school there. He came from Wisconsin Republican royalty..
Today, word came out that William Calley died back on April 28. The author of the single most notorious mass murder in the Vietnam War, we can’t look at Calley.
Daniel Ellsberg has died. Few Americans did more to expose the evils of American actions overseas than Ellsberg. While most of what he exposed about the Vietnam War probably would.
Look, I know that if I was a kid in 1966, I would absolutely support the Vietnam War because a) Batman and b) that card with LBJ's picture on it..
This is the grave of Ellsworth Bunker. Born in 1894 in Yonkers, New York, Bunker grew up in the super elite. The family went back in New York forever and his father was a co-founder of National Sugar Refining Company. So this was big money....
If you haven't read this remarkable op-ed by Kim Phuc Phan Thi, the young girl profiled in the famous picture above, you really should. You’ve probably seen the photograph of.
This is the grave of Walt Rostow. What a Thanksgiving treat to profile at Walt Rostow. So much to be thankful for here..... I always found it amusing that Rostow's.
This is the grave of William Nolde. It's hard to imagine being a family member and knowing that your loved one was the last person to die for a terrible horrible mistake. That was the case of William Nolde, the last American soldier to die...
There's a new book by Joseph Darda titled How White Men Won the Culture Wars. I haven't read it, but I was reading a review of it The New Republic.
I had high hopes for the French case to hold the U.S. accountable for dropping Agent Orange in Vietnam. This was for two reasons. First is that the U.S. is.