Thanks to Our Troops on the Occasion of the Spring Freedom Holiday of Pesach
I have been cleaning the parts of my self-cleaning oven that do not get self-cleaned in preparation for the Jewish…
Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall, built by the Soviets in 1961 to keep the East Germans and East Berliners from traveling to…
September 1, 1939 — The Day the Gate Closed on Europe
September 1, 1939, is the day the Nazis used a staged “Polish” military incident as the excuse to invade Poland…
Visit in 1972 to the Normandy Beaches of the D-Day Landing
Chapter 27 of my Cold War memoir TALES OF AN AMERICAN OCCUPYING GERMANY begins with a visit to the D-Day…
Is European History Once Again Repeating?
The news of armed forces massing on the borders of a European country is nothing new in that part of…