Historical
Valor Friday
The handsome young officer pictured here is Robert Lewis Simpson. I happened across his story this week and found it interesting. Simpson was the pilot of the first American aircraft lost to enemy action in the skies of Vietnam. It was early in American involvement, 28 August 1962. Simpson had just had his 35th birthday […]
Saturday Shorts
Apparently some form of sanity is infecting the International Olympic Committee. Its President, two-time swimming gold medalist Kirsty Coventry said: “At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat,” Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, said in a statement. “So, it is absolutely clear that it […]
Valor Friday
Lars sends us this really cool story about brotherhood within the notoriously bad Nazi prisoner of war camps. The conditions were spartan to say the least for the Western Allies contained within the German stalags. Despite overcrowding (especially late in the war), a lack of medical supplies, and dwindling food, Red Cross packages were still […]
Jamie Raskin: Tom Paine was an undocumented immigrant
Representative Jamie Raskin presented a case to prevent illegal alien kids from being “kicked out of the schools.” To help illustrate his point, he talked about Thomas Paine who immigrated from the United Kingdom to one of the British colonial provinces. Raskin described Paine as an “undocumented immigrant.” Raskin also showcased Thomas Jefferson, who the […]
Valor Friday
AW1Ed forwarded the story of a bad ass Navy diver. Back in the day when divers wore the big, heavy brass standard diving dress. The size and weight of it only matched by the enormous brass balls of the operators themselves. Crilley received both the Navy Cross and the Medal of Honor for his diving […]
Valor Friday
Here’s one of the most Marine-looking Marines to ever Marine. Kenneth Walsh was the #4 top scoring Marine fighter ace of World War II. Here’s how he earned that shiny blue ribbon that outranks all the others. From Military Times; World War II in the Pacific produced a remarkable 10 fighter pilots of the United […]
Valor Friday
David forwarded this story of heroism in the skies over Europe during the Great War. I’d never heard of William Vail, and agree that this is a great tale to share. From Military.com; Gregory Vail grew up listening to his father’s war stories, watching him struggle with a prosthetic leg and agonizing phantom pain, hearing […]
Valor Friday
It was a week of valor, with two Medals of Honor being awarded at the President’s State of the Union address and Coast Guardsman Scott Ruskan receiving the Legion of Merit for his rescuing dozens during the Texas flood last year. So for Valor Friday this week, I’ve got the story of Jack Jacobs. He’s […]
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