Battlefields: Why They Should Be Saved
“Battlefields are outdoor classrooms,” says David Duncan, president of The American Battlefield Trust. There is no better place to learn how the acts of man shape the fate of a …
War Stories
World War II Years: A Wife’s Anguished Letter
During World War II, a wife wrote a desperate plea to a man in the military whom she barely knew. She needed information about her husband, and my father and …
Dorie Miller, Hero of World War II
Dorie Miller was a mess attendant on the battleship USS West Virginia when the Japanese launched a massive surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Sunday, December 7, 1941. …
Final Evacuation of Saigon Signaled by Song “White Christmas”
By April 1975—after almost twenty years fighting in Vietnam–the United States began its pull-out. That winter the North Vietnamese pushed the South Vietnamese back forcefully and definitively. The Americans knew …
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The Signal Corps: Battlefield Communication–Civil War
Battlefield communication has always been difficult. Before technology, armies relied on bugles, trumpets, drums and banners to signal to the soldiers and to more distant regiments what was to come …
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Last Battles of the Civil War: Forks Road
The Battle of Forks Road in Wilmington, North Carolina, in February 1865, was one of the closing armed engagements bringing the Civil War to an end. By late 1864 almost …
