Tag: history
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Challenger
I didn’t realize until Friday that yesterday was going to be the 20th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I remember exactly where I was that day. My mom and I had just moved back from Florida, and my dad was still there trying to sell our house. I had just started the second half of…
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Busy Week
Pretty busy week for us. On Monday, Monica and I attended a luncheon for my Mom’s retirement. There’s not too many photos here yet, but there will be as soon as I get the pics from my Mom’s camera. We ate lunch at the Olive Garden and my Mom had to give a speech (she…
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Pearl Harbor Day
It seems a little weird to call today Pearl Harbor Day. I mean, we don’t call 9/11 Twin Towers Day or Pentagon Day. It’s been so long since 1941 that most people can’t really relate to what Americans went through back then, but there are the inevitable comparisons to 9/11, so I imagine most people…
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Sixty Years Ago
I’m sure some of you have seen the recent polls which state that 60% of people think the U.S. was justified in dropping the bomb on Japan. What are those other 40% thinking? Do they not know their history? Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows that countless American lives were saved because the…
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Colonial Content
I discovered something yesterday that I thought was pretty neat and rather timely. It’s the Colonial Williamsburg podcast. They just started podcasting recently, and I’ve already listened to all the episodes that are currently posted, and I can’t wait for more. They had a special episode posted yesterday which featured famous Thomas Jefferson interpreter, Bill…
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Foote’s Legacy
You might have heard lately of the passing of someone named Shelby Foote, and if you’ve ever watched Ken Burn’s epic The Civil War, you’ve no doubt seen him. I love that documentary because it just feeds my passion for history, and Shelby Foote’s commentary is a big reason I enjoy it so much. He…
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A Second Raise
More history for you: sixty years ago today was the raising of the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. You’ve probably seen this immortalized many times in a very famous photo, there’s actually video of the event that gets shown every once in awhile. Monica used to live right…
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George the First
Happy President’s Day! Just thought you might want to read a little about a man who was quite possibly our greatest President ever.
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Suribachi
Amazing photos from Iwo Jima, an island of scorched earth where the United States fought one of the fiercest battles of WWII. For the soldiers involved, it was a month of hell on earth. I stare at these pictures, and I am just in awe.
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Roustabout
Today, Elvis would have been 70 years old. Tune in to brimon radio to celebrate the birthday of the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Long live the King!