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Bombs Away
Once Upon A Time… Remembering historical events and considering their significance for families today Since 1942, the United States has conducted approximately 1,045 nuclear weapons tests. To name a...
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Man’s Search for Meaning
Embed from Getty Images I’m off to California to atone with my brother and my 100-year-old mother. I welcome the opportunity for self-examination. I respond to the ritual. And it gives my mother...
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Three Veterans Who Never Stopped Making a Difference
Countless tributes have been written about the heroic service of our men and women in uniform. However, few testimonies exist to witness the selfless service these courageous warriors provide when they...
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Reflections of a U.S. Jew in Poland
Professor Warren Blumenfeld writes of how the dynamic and palpable tension of history still exists today. “If the Jew did not exist, the Anti-Semite would invent [them].” -Jean Paul Sartre,...
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Kids and Toy Guns: Pretend Battles Rage On, Long Past the Last School Shooting
The original Star Wars Rebel Blaster — With his kids, Carter Gaddis straddles a line between regulating imaginative gun play and banning it. — The kids in our neighborhood run around with their toy...
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Embed from Getty Images Coming soon to movie theaters throughout the world, “Operation Finale,” directed by Chris Weitz, tells the story of the tracking and capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann, a...
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More Folks Have Died by Bullet Than Battlefield and We’re in Another Civil War
For a war to be a war, does it need to be fought in proximity? Does it need to be fought only days apart from each other? Sunday, even more souls were taken from this earth by the bullet – 14 total...
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Juan Mejía – A Veterans Day Tribute
Embed from Getty Images — In 1925, Calvin Coolidge took office as president, F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, the Scopes trial was in the daily news, and Chrysler started producing...
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Charlie Munger: The Power Of Not Making Stupid Decisions
— By all appearances, Charlie Munger doesn’t seem like an interesting man. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII and was one of the few who managed to be commissioned as an officer without a...
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A New Threat to Individual Liberty
Morning is always a little strange, for one thing, it happens so early in the day. And it comes so close to sleeping that people are not always wide awake, and things can take on a surrealistic edge....
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A picture tells a thousand words, but it doesn’t necessarily tell the whole...
— This is in response to a writing prompt regarding the photo of the sailor kissing the woman in the iconic end of WW II photo, and his passing away at age 95. A picture tells a thousand words, but...
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What If the Nazis Won World War II?
— Kudos to DC for doing something different than the typical cape and tights comic. In Freedom Fighters, a 12-issue series set on Earth X, Hitler won World War II and took control of the United States....
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People Visit Museums – They Don’t Live In Them
Growing up I had a friend whose family had a formal living room. I’m not sure why they had a formal living room since they got just about as much use out of it as the crawl space under the stairs,...
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The Color of Freedom
— American Indians have a complicated relationship with African-Americans in general and their freedom struggle in particular. We have in common that we inhabit a nation founded on theft of Indian land...
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Down the Rabbit Hole of War Stories
— I’ve always been interested in the human side of events. The emotion behind the facts. The pain behind the actions. The fear. The sorrow. The stories. It’s really just the way I’m wired, I think. In...
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The American GI in WWII, Uncensored
Edward Gitre, Virginia Tech I can still recall the exhilaration I felt in the reading room of the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. It was mid-April 2009. I was scrolling through roll after...
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World War II: Crash Course World History #38
— In which John Green teaches you about World War II, aka The Great Patriotic War, aka The Big One. So how did this war happen? And what does it mean? We’ve all learned the facts about World War II...
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A Retrospective Time Capsule of Oxford House in World War Two
— By Talibah Miah Many of us are familiar with the timeline of World War Two, but how much do we actually know about the experiences of living through such a catastrophic and momentous event? Delving...
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National Narcissism Inflates Beliefs About World War II Victory
By BRANDIE JEFFERSON-WUSTL There is another interesting finding. “Russians view World War II very differently than, basically, people from every other country in our study,” says lead author Henry...
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A Life Well Lived is the Ultimate Thank You
Sometimes I do not accept the reality with which I am being confronted because it’s too damn painful. I found myself wandering around The National World War II Memorial Museum in New Orleans several...
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