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A Live Eagle In  A Military Cemetery(click on picture for a larger View)The above picture of an Eagle sitting on the top of a gravestone in a military cemetery was sent to me by my oldest son,  He received it from a friend of his.I suppose that what it symbolizes ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt SpeaksThe Four FreedomsThe following is taken from "The Four Freedoms" a speech that was delivered on January 6, 1941.  If you wish to read the entire "Four Freedoms" speech it is included at the end of the post."If the Congress maintains these principles the voters, putting patriotism ...

Virginia Hall - OSS Sketch. Virginia Hall - An American Spy On December 12, 2006, Virginia Hall was  honored at the home of the French ambassador in Washington, D.C., by the French and British governments. British Ambassador Sir David Manning, Virginia Hall's niece Lorna Catling and French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte at the ...

Private Edward Donald SlovikAbout 7 months ago, I read a story about something that happened during WWII.  It had been published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, on January 31, 2011.The following brief account of the story as it was told by a WWII veteran, by the name of Nick Gozik.  It ...

Civil War HeroineOn June 15, 1863, Confederate troops, marched across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania, for the first time in the Civil War.  They crossed into  the townshps of Antrim and Greencastle.  By the end of June 1853, the citizens of Antrim and Greencastle had nervously watched,  from their farms ...

James Ewell Brown StuartJames Ewell Brown Stuart was born on February 6, 1833. at Laurel Hill Farm, a plantation in Patrick County, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina.He was the eighth of eleven children and the youngest of the five sons to survive past his childhood years.  He was ...

Andersonville Prison (Camp Sumter)Camp Sumter, commonly called "Andersonville", was one of the largest military prisons established by the Confederacy during the Civil War. In existence for 14 months, over 45,000 Union soldiers were confined at the prison. Of these, almost 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, and exposure ...

William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author.  He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched ...