This is the poster that I was looking for to include in my post on Pearl Harbor. I found another less dramatic, but suitable one instead for my previous post. This one is known as the “Remember Dec. 7th!” poster and was issued in 1942 by the Office of War Information, in remembrance of the Japanese [...]
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‘One of the Great Defining Moments in History’
Posted: December 7, 2011 in United States, World War II0
Pictures in Books, George Burns, Professor Lewis & Bonhoeffer
Posted: December 5, 2011 in Books, Germany, Hitler, Pomerania, Pop Culture, World War III love skimming through books at bookstores and libraries. My favorite sections are those with photographs. While at the library in Issaquah I picked up a book by George Burns. The photographs were just terrific. There was a lot of Jack Benny. There is one of him in drag standing next to Burns. He looked [...]
Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing said Conner was the most indispensable man in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). Finding a link in my inbox to an article on Fox Conner doesn’t happen very often. In fact, I don’t recall ever seeing one before. So I was intrigued. Conner pops up in the books and other [...]
Someone somewhere posted a link to an educational website about the Holocaust, so I followed it. It has a Czech domain address, .cz, so I am assuming the site primarily focuses on the history of the Czech Republic or Czechoslovakia. The link was to a digitized image of a death certificate for a man named Moritz Königsberg. Königsberg was killed by Nazi thugs in 1945. He [...]
Memories of Friend and Neighbor James Arness
Posted: July 15, 2011 in Minnesota, Pop Culture, World War IIJames Arness played Marshal Matt Dillion on the popular Western Gunsmoke fore more than 20 years, first on one of the longest-running TV shows and then later in a few made-for-TV movies. Most of my generation and younger don’t have a clue to who he was. One man who lives on Mercer Island near Seattle remembers him [...]
Something made me think of Patton, one of my favorite films, and the prayer he asks the chaplain to write regarding the weather. The underlying score by Jerry Goldsmith and narration by George C. Scott make for one terrific scene. The script was co-written by a very young Francis Ford Coppola. I want a prayer, [...]
C-SPAN’s American History TV
Posted: July 5, 2011 in American Civil War, American Revolution, United States, World War IIC-SPAN, “devoted to providing access to the political process,” has developed programming on American history for years. But it was often sporadic and mixed in with political and judicial coverage. Now, however, the network has dedicated weekends on C-SPAN3 to the subject, naming it American History TV (AHTV). From Saturday morning to Monday morning, AHTV [...]
A fascinating photo album with images by a Nazi photographer has turned up in New York City. The New York Times and Der Spiegelare working on identifying the man. Its creator was able — apparently within weeks — to photograph Hitler as he warred on Russia and also to photograph some of the earliest victims [...]
‘History Is the Soldier’s Gift’
Posted: May 30, 2011 in American Civil War, American Revolution, The Mexican War, United States, World War I, World War IIHere’s a great piece from Human Events on the importance of history and remembering those who’ve come before, particularly veterans of America’s wars. Remember where our heroes fell, and why. . . . . . . Today we honor men and women who were in the right place at the right time. All of history would have been different, if they had [...]
