Honoring the great John Adams on his birthday. What a leader! Devoted to individual rights and liberty of conscience, Adams risked all – his family, fortune and life – for a vision of a new American society, grounded in rational thought and strong cultural morality. Share and commemorate this Founding Father’s Birthday!

Honoring Bill Maudlin today, a World War II soldier who created a cartoon series about two typical American infantry soldiers, Willie & Joe, on his birthday. Maudlin received two Pulitzer Prizes over his lifetime of work. Maudlin came from a military family. His father was an artilleryman in Wolrd War I and his grandfather had been a scout in the … Read More

Thinking about James Okubo, who earned the Medal of Honor for actions between today and November 4, 1944 as a medic at Biffontaine, France, when he aided 23 soldiers while under intense German fire. Okubo was born in Anacortes, Washington and was interred with his family at the Tule Lake, CA and Heart Mountain, WY camps for Japanese-Americans.  He joined … Read More

The great Theodore Roosevelt was born on this day in 1858. Soldier, statesman, scientist and write, he was the quintessential ideal American of the early 19th century – vigorous, optimistic and eager to make his mark on the world.  (2) Roosevelt was a sickly boy, who was determined that his biology was not his destiny. If you have not read … Read More

William Sawelson earned the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War I, when he crawled from his fighting hole under intense German machine gun firing to help out a wounded soldier. Honor and remember him.

The Federalist Papers were published today, a crucial step in the fight to win support for our great Constitution from the American people.

Honor and remember John Basilone, the Marine’s Marine, who earned the Medal of Honor for actions this day at Guadalcanal. From the night of October 4, 1942, Basilone until October 26, 1942, Basilone resolutely defended against a Japanese attack by the Sendai Division at Henderson Field, keeping two heavy automatic guns in the fight, cutting back through enemy infested supply … Read More

One of the best maxims I learned in the Marine Corps is, “when the situation is obscure, attack!” Ernest Evans, captain of the USS Johnston, acted in this spirit when he earned the Medal of Honor posthumously during the Battle of Samar in World War II. Half Cherokee and one quarter Creek, Evans graduated from the Naval Academy in 1931 … Read More

The “aces of aces”, David McCampbell, shoots down nine Japanese planes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Honor and remember!

The US Army’s 1st Infantry Division – “The Big Red One” – went into the attack in France, the first American unit to start fighting in World War I.