Real Soldiers
Army vet, satirist, inventor Tom Lehrer dies, 97
There’s a name that brings back more than a few memories if you’re one of the, ahem, more experienced readers. Tom Lehrer, the ’50s and ’60s satirist, died and was found at his home Saturday. Lehrer was a well known satirist in the ’50s and ’60s. Probably remembered best as the primary songwriter host of […]
D-Day hero to receive posthumous DSC
We’ve talked about Staff Sergeant Waverly Woodson Jr before. I wrote about him last year for a Valor Friday piece. Click the link to refresh your memory. Ex-PH2 posted about him a few years previous. [Editor’s note: I don’t realize how much I miss some people like Ex until I’m going through old posts and […]
18th Century Soldier Art Discovered on Castle Door
Soldier graffiti found on castle door in ‘astonishing discovery’ By Catherine Nicholls, CNN More than 50 etchings from soldiers have been discovered on an English castle door in an “astonishing discovery,” including graffiti of what could depict the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged. The door was only recently discovered in Dover Castle, in southeast […]
Valor Friday
This week Captain Larry Taylor was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War. Let’s see why he’s been belatedly honored. Larry Taylor grew up in the St Elmo neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee. His roots in the area extend back generations. His great-great-grandfather had served in the Civil War, his great-uncle […]
Valor Friday
Born in 1696, Samuel Whittemore is perhaps one of the most interesting characters of the American Revolution. This may be surprising, as the oldest man among the Founding Fathers is accepted to be Benjamin Franklin, nearly a decade younger than Whittemore. Whittemore owned a farm in Menotomy, Massachusetts. Menotomy would eventually be renamed Arlington, as […]
Belgian Beer Bearing Battered Bastard of Bastogne dies, age 98
We talked about Private Vince Speranza several years back, and his cheeky brand of “aid and comfort to the wounded” during the 101st’s legendary stand during the Battle of the Bulge. The above pictured beer was made by the locals decades later in his honor. Unfortunately, word came in yesterday that he’d passed away at […]
World War II veteran reunites with 1st love in France 75 years after meeting: ‘You never got out of my heart’
I’ll just leave this here, its a few years old now but still a great story: K.T. Robbins, 97, of Mississippi, was visiting Normandy for the 75th anniversary celebrations for D-Day, and he had one wish — to reunite with the girl he’d left in France, but never forgotten. In 1944, Robbins met Jeannine Ganaye in […]
Valor Friday
Sometimes while writing one of my articles, someone in the comments surprises the heck out of me and mentions a personal connection to a subject. In the case of Larry Thorne/Lauri Allen Torni, we have a longtime member whose father was his commanding officer and friend for a while. For last week’s article, another longtime […]
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