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Service for our country: A Meigs has been in our service since West Point was founded
ArticlesI just had the good fortune to have been invited by Stewart Vanderwilt to a lunch presentation by General Montgomery...
CONTINUE READING →The Letter Project
Articles“Maybe Africa should never have been called the Dark Continent; I find it nice here and wish you could...
CONTINUE READING →LETTERS HOME
ArticlesSoldiers have written home to comfort and console their loved ones since Plutarch wrote to Timoxena during the wars...
CONTINUE READING →D-Day, 2010: How Good It Is To Have Been Born On Third Base
ArticlesThis is a hard photograph to look at, but please do. It’s about us. One of the most blistering...
CONTINUE READING →A three day weekend
ArticlesIn Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...
CONTINUE READING →Armed Forces Day
ArticlesFist. Club. Rock. Sword. Spear. Arrow. Gun. Cannon. Tank. Bomb. Mushroom cloud. Mushroom. Glade. Hollow. Grave. Tomb. Tombstone. Cemetery....
CONTINUE READING →The first American in St Lo, France
ArticlesMajor Thomas Howie used a field telephone to tell his commanding officer that his battalion of the 116th regiment...
CONTINUE READING →Sanctuary
ArticlesFlee, yes. But… where? When the sanctuary is no longer a sanctuary. St. Lo, France, July 18,1944
CONTINUE READING →Ruins
ArticlesFlee, yes, but where? After more than two thousand years of doing laundry in their quiet streams, a thousand...
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