Marines and all Americans should know the name of Army Lieutenant-Colonel John U. D. Page, who earned the Medal of Honor posthumously for his leadership at the Chosin Reservoir, when he repeatedly led from the front and exposed himself to enemy fire in covering the withdrawal of Marine units to Hungnam. Honor and remember him! Page was born in the … Read More

Marines and fellow Americans, we should remember the 2nd Raider Battalion, which, under Evans Carlson, completed “The Long Patrol” on this day in 1942. 29 days of movement & combat through the Guadalcanal jungle, in which they killed over 500 enemy soldiers. Please honor them!

Happy Thanksgiving! I am eternally grateful to have been born an American, and for the the leaders and heroes who sacrificed all to make this great nation! 

The Mayflower Compact was signed today in Plymouth Harbor, and you should read it.  The Mayflower Compact AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SETTLERS AT NEW PLYMOUTH: 1620 IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN . We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender … Read More

I had fun reading about how Julia Ward Howe came to write the Battle Hymn of the Republic on this day in 1861. Really interesting that the song started as a Civil War soldiers’ song, “John Brown’s Body”. “John Brown’s Body” originated in the 2nd Battalion of the Massachusetts militia. A soldier in the battalion had the same name as … Read More

I made a post about Mack Alvin Jordan, who earned the Medal of Honor on this day in the Korean War. His physical courage and drive and what he did in combat are unbelievable. What’s also crazy, though, is how when you scratch the surface on a story like this, the other soldiers and leaders who were with Jordan on … Read More

I wrote about the eve of the Ia Drang Battle yesterday, and today I’d like to honor, as much as I am able, Army pilots Bruce Crandall, Ed Freeman and Walter Marm. Lieutenant-Colonel “Snake” Crandall led numerous Huey flights into the valley to evacuate more than 75 Americans and to bring supplies to the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry. 12 of … Read More

I realized that 58 years ago today, Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, commanding the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division received his mission to “conduct an airmobile assault”, followed by search and destroy operations in the vicinity of the Ia Drang Valley in South Vietnam.  This battle was memorialized in 1994 in “We Are Soldiers Once, And Young”, a book … Read More