Professor Ford gave her testimony and the country was profoundly affected with her sincerity. Like a little girl, she seemed vulnerable and afraid. She has obviously been traumatized as a young girl. Unfortunately the exculpatory evidence was slowly proving it wasn’t...
I waited seventy years, but I finally got the story. My father is 95. I was born on his birthday, seventy-one years ago. He was a Gunnery Officer in the Pacific. I couldn’t understand what kind of ship he was on, except it was a type of troop transport...
During 1966, paranoia gripped Mao Zedong; he felt he was losing his power and influence in the Communist Party of China. To reassert his political presence, he announced a new Cultural Revolution and unleashed a paramilitary force of teenagers on the country,...
We modern humans are smug about our progress through time. No longer do we hunt, kill, and build a fire to enjoy our dinner. We don’t make love in desperation and hope we live to see the sunrise; however, we have retained certain behavioral patterns and...
Sergeant Reckless was a slightly different Marine, but she retired as a Marine staff sergeant and is one of the most-colorful and beloved Marines of all time. She liked to have a beer or two with the guys and she had a voracious appetite, but never gained weight. She...
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