More than any other year, I feel that the purpose of Memorial Day is being hijacked by the need to party and the media’s need to rewrite history and tradition. The year 1868 was the first time that Decoration Day was widely observed in the United States … a day set aside to decorate the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who died during the Civil War. In 1882, the name “Memorial Day” began to beread more…
The United States Army has been conducting a study about having women in combat units. In many ways women are just as capable as men – in some areas perhaps even more so – but physically, most women will not be equal to men. In world marathon records, in the best trained men and women in the world, there remains about a 20 minute gap between their race times of about 2 hrs 5 min forread more…
On November 11, 1918, World War I ended with an armistice. The armistice came at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month … 11am, November 11th, 1918. At that time it was “The Great War”, and the war to end all wars … no one would have believed at that time the atrocities that were waiting for our great nation and our world. The armistice was a temporary agreement at that pointread more…
