The fact is that once freed. the slaves could no longer expect constant employment, food, healthcare, housing, and protection from the neighbors. No...
The fact is that half of the slaveholders (responsible for far more than half the slaves) WERE the property of Northern absentee slaveholders. Ever...
Lee, Eisenhower, Washington. Of course, FDR was responsible for America being ready to save the world in WWII. Bus Jr. has to be one of the worst.
Russian POWs were imprisoned for being captured instead of fighting to the death, as far as I remember from studying Russian Literature and history....
Hollywood has followed an ancient tradition (ever hear of Homer?) of glamorizing war. Joseph Goebbels was one of the most powerful members of the...
I seem to remember that Russia/USSR did not sign the Geneva convention and, in fact, considered POWs to be deserters. Perhaps Trump is affected by...
Recently Donald Trump caused yet another controversy by, essentially, ridiculing Senator John McCain for having been captured during the Vietnam...
The above reference to making the kidnapped American sailors essentially slaves has more to do with the fact that they were kidnapped and forced to...
It wasn't overlooked when I went to school. My favorite story about the Battle of New Orleans concerns Wade Hampton, either the second ( which I...
I was very opposed to being drafted, but was willing to serve in a capacity that I felt was appropriate for myself. After I completed basic training...
On the 16th of this month (July 2015) a lone gunman of Arabic descent shot and killed 4 marines and 1 sailor in Chattanooga, TN. The man attacked...
Current research by nations such as the US, UK, Russia,China is designed to produce self-limiting diseases that cause havoc and then become harmless....
As I mentioned, the prison guards were probably not the elite of the German forces. I also imagine that not all of them were die-hard NAZIs. I...
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