Category Archives: War

Splashing Gas on a Fire

September 11, 2024 – 12:04 pm

Written September 25, 2010 World leaders have flocked to New York for the General Assembly. President Obama addressed the dignitaries to ask for a final solution to the Palestinian problem. Other diplomats have voiced their concerns over poverty and global warming, however the Iranian president scored big with his claim that the 9/11 attacks were […]

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Osama’s Brother

September 11, 2024 – 9:01 am

Back in 1984 I was visiting friends in London. Vonelli was living behind Harrods. A small studio in which Eric Burdon of the Animals’ wrote SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS. This landlady was from America. Her daughter was a beauty. Her boyfriend was a Saudi pilot. he bought us champagne. Crystal not Moet. His girlfriend introduced him […]

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Burning A Draft Card Never

July 21, 2024 – 7:51 pm

After the 1963 assassination of JFK, the United States became more embroiled in the Vietnam civil war. Support for our involvement was widespread, however according to Wikipedia a twenty-two year-old conscientious objector, Gene Keyes, setting fire to his card on Christmas Day 1964. While the federal government declared the destruction of a draft card a […]

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Burning A Draft Card Never

July 20, 2024 – 6:26 pm

After the 1963 assassination of JFK, the United States became more embroiled in the Vietnam civil war. Support for our involvement was widespread, however according to Wikipedia a twenty-two year-old conscientious objector, Gene Keyes, setting fire to his card on Christmas Day 1964. While the federal government declared the destruction of a draft card a […]

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D Day plus 80

June 6, 2024 – 2:24 am

During the night of June 6, 1944 24,000 Allied airborne troops parachuted in Normandy and the pathfinders seized strategic crossroads beyond the beachheads to block the Wehrmacht from reinforcing the Nazi Atlantic Wall. Operation Overlord to liberate Europe was in motion. At 6:03am 156,000 troops from Britain, Canada, and the USA conducted an amphibious assault […]

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