Today is the anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in 1943. The ship was torpedoed by a U-Boat at 12:55 AM. 230 of the 904 men aboard the ship were rescued. The Dorchester’s sinking is notable for the heroism of four First Lieutenants in the US Army Chaplain Corps. The four men, two …
By now everyone knows “Carol of the Bells” the way the Trans-Siberian Orchestra performs it. Here’s a quieter version by Robin Bullock.
First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing of Wisconsin will get a Medal of Honor on September 15. Various Senators from Wisconsin starting with Proxmire in the 1980s have been working for it. What did he do? Well, he was on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg on the third day of the battle, with Pickett and two other …
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From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, during a press conference about the Tucson shootings, called Arizona “the Tombstone of the United States.” Some journalists gave the word a lowercase “t,” but the sheriff was clearly referring to the infamous silver-mining town 70 miles from Tucson — site of the shootout at the …
Part Two of the USS Kirk’s story aired this morning on Morning Edition. Part One below. Part Three here, later this evening.
Most of us have seen the photo of the helicopter leaving the embassy roof in Saigon on April 29, 1975. (It wasn’t actually the embassy but rather an apartment building where senior CIA employees lived, but never mind.) NPR is airing a three-part story on All Things Considered beginning today which tells the story of …
Mustang Bobby has written a wonderfully sad remembrance of the events of June 5, 1968. He was a freshman at a private school in Rhode Island, awakened to the news that Bobby Kennedy had been shot the previous night in Los Angeles. I was a newly-graduated senior from a high school in Northern Virginia. My …