Category Archives: War

Hiroshima Plus One Month 1945

August 6, 2023 – 10:47 am

This rare photo of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud was taken on August 6, 1945. The Hiroshima bombing claimed approximately 120,000 lives and the subsequent leveling of Nagasaki annihilated 80,000. The US military strategists have long held that these two attacks saved over a million US troops by forcing the Japanese Empire to surrender to the […]

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RETURN TO NORMAL by Peter Nolan Smith

September 13, 2022 – 2:04 am

Two weeks after the collapse of the Trade Towers the westerly wind shifted and a southern breeze spread the funereal smoke across Lower Manhattan. The poisonous fumes smelled of a blazing cannibal BBQ. Later that afternoon I caught a train north to Boston. My sister put me up in her basement. I watched the Red […]

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GHOST OF THE STUMP by Peter Nolan Smith

August 22, 2022 – 5:55 am

In the early 90s diamonds were priced to the advantage of the dealers on 47th Street. 50% profit was normal for most stones and my boss Manny gave his sales staff commission based on 5% of the gross. In February of 1991 I had the luck to hook a middle-aged woman looking to buy a […]

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4th Of July Koreathon

July 4, 2022 – 2:38 am

The island of Hawaii survived the threat of a North Korean missile barrage promised by the outlaw nation’s leader. The seven rocket salvo was condemned by the U.S., South Korea and Japan, as the short-range missiles fell into the sea some 300 miles after launch. None of the rockets were carrying a nuclear warhead to […]

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Shots In Anger

May 28, 2022 – 3:12 am

At 4:30am on Friday, April 12, 1861 Brigadier General Beauregard ordered the secessionist troops manning the artillery batteries of Charleston, South Carolina to open fire on Fort Sumter housing 127 federal troops of which 13 were musicians. Two hours lapse before the Yankee commander allowed Captain Abner Doubleday, the inventor of baseball, to return a […]

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