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WWII Not Quite Over For Japan Aug. 27, 2025
Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was b... Read More
Trump and Hitler: Too Close for Comfort Feb. 26, 2025
For years now, I've tried to resist the temptation of writing a side-by-side comparison between Dona... Read More
2025 Greenland and 1938 Czechoslovakia: Too Close for Comfort Feb. 12, 2025
History does not really repeat itself, not exactly. But with both a bachelor's and a master's in his... Read More
Last October's Surprise Attack by Hamas Was Israel's Pearl Harbor Oct. 02, 2024
In a surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes and submarines attacked American forces on Haw... Read More
American Gold: At Age 100, Lieutenant Benjamin Inspires Still May. 14, 2024
If 100 can be said to be the new 70, Lieutenant Alfred D. Benjamin of the Army Air Corps' 384th Bomb... Read More
Notes From Auschwitz Jan. 24, 2024
This week, I visited Auschwitz. I had never before visited any of the death camps. The experience is... Read More
A Superhero Defends What Makes America Great Sep. 06, 2023
It doesn't matter what astronomers say. The autumnal equinox may be a couple of weeks away, but Labo... Read More
Compensate St. Louis' Nuclear Victims -- Now Aug. 15, 2023
President Joe Biden this week cracked open the door to the possibility of finally, after decades, pr... Read More
Fast Asleep: 'Cabaret' Sounds a Wake-up Call Jun. 20, 2023
The Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts are as uplifting a place as there is to find onesel... Read More
The U.S. and China Wage Diplomatic War in the Central and South Pacific Jun. 02, 2023
Eighty-one years separate 1942 and 2023. In that human lifetime, the technologies of war have change... Read More
The U.S. and China Wage Diplomatic War in the Central and South Pacific May. 31, 2023
Eighty-one years separate 1942 and 2023. In that human lifetime, the technologies of war have change... Read More
Discredited Suisse: Congress Spotlights a Bank's Attempt to Obscure Its Nazi Links May. 16, 2023
Until lately, America's longstanding tradition of bipartisan congressional investigations had been r... Read More
'Never Forget' Means First Learning What to Remember Dec. 17, 2022
At night, after the children are in bed, as I settle down for the evening, I put something horrible ... Read More
Ignoring Lessons Learned at Pearl Harbor Dec. 06, 2022
Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2022 — Eighty-one years ago today, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida was prep... Read More
Oxi Day Reminds Us of the Value of a 'No' Oct. 29, 2022
There's power in a "no." Just ask the Greeks, who celebrate the word every year, on Oxi Day, Oct. 28... Read More
Putin's Dirty War, Geopolitical Adjustments and Prospects for Future Wars, Part IV Sep. 10, 2022
Among Vladimir Putin's greatest fears is the further strengthening and expansion of the 30-member NA... Read More
Gimme a Cigarette. Gimme a Stamp Jun. 10, 2022
Ukraine is fighting for its life, and the United States is sending weapons, and the price of gasolin... Read More
Prayer, Strength and Gratefulness Jun. 09, 2022
We lived in Belgium in the late 1960s while my father researched for his dissertation. I was too you... Read More
Thoughts For Memorial Day 2022 May. 26, 2022
Four days a year a special American flag flew from a tall loblolly pine in my family's front yard. E... Read More
Thoughts For Memorial Day 2022 May. 25, 2022
Four days a year a special American flag flew from a tall loblolly pine in my family's front yard. E... Read More
