Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the End of WWII
The war in Europe ended in May of 1945 and the war in the Pacific ended later that summer in…
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…