Republicans should start accepting the hard truths we face and work with us to do the right thing for the middle class instead of protecting millionaires and big corporations at all costs,- Harry Reid, June 28, 2011 (emphasis mine) Old…
Category: American Exceptionalism
John Wayne Recites the Pledge of Allegiance
yeah, “that” Pledge…feel free to sing along
The Nurses of Corregidor
We’ve all been to places that were “heavy’ not just with history, but the ghosts of men and women who have gone before us. I suppose the Alamo would have been such a heavy place at one time, and maybe…
The Death of Captain Waskow, by Ernie Pyle
Probably Ernie Pyle’s best known piece, I’ve included here a copy of Captain Waskow’s last letter home. Two hankies, gentlemen. At the Front Lines in Italy, January 10th, 1944 . . . In this war I have known a…