I am not a veteran. I only have the greatest respect for those who have served, unsurpassed by all professions that keep America safe and strong.
( Published Thursday, November 13th, 2025 @ 8:36 pm )]]> In remembrance of the day that will forever seer the concept of 'evil' in our minds, let's look back at that fateful morning, exactly 11 years ago today to that series of horrific events which unfolded before our unbelieving eyes......
( Published Sunday, September 14th, 2025 @ 5:32 pm )]]> The origins of labor Day are rather dubious, born from congressional guilt of Americans shot down, by the Army and U.S. Marshalls, while exercising their first amendment right to congregate and protest during the Pullman Strike in Haymarket Square in Chicago on may 4, 1886.
( Published Monday, September 1st, 2025 @ 9:23 am )]]> If you've ever traveled abroad you are asked this often. It's as if you are given an opportunity to "come clean" and "lay it all out on the table."
( Published Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 5:11 pm )]]> There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.
( Published Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 4:41 am )]]> Every year on June 6, our nation pauses to remember the thousands of brave Americans and American allies who stormed the beaches of Normandy to launch the campaign to liberate Europe from the oppression and extermination by the Nazi regime in World War II.
( Published Friday, June 6th, 2025 @ 4:16 pm )]]> It was discreetly referred to as Operation Overlord - the final push into Fortress Europe through the inflexible sea wall, built by the Nazi overlords, just a spare few miles from the free shores of Great Britain, where the entire United States Expeditionary Force was stationed.
( Published Friday, June 6th, 2025 @ 4:01 pm )]]> This weekend we pause to remember our nation's fallen.
( Published Friday, May 23rd, 2025 @ 10:09 am )]]> If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
( Published Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:40 am )]]> Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
( Published Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am )]]> We all recognize the 4th of July as Independence Day - as the day we declared our independence from England. We celebrate the Declaration of Independence has since become our nation's most cherished symbol of liberty.
( Published Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:10 am )]]> Most people will remember April 4, 1968 as the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated. While that was a more histrionically important event, that date will always seired in my mind as the date of a battle we fought in Vietnam. I was only in country for a couple of months and the loss of comr
( Published Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 10:20 am )]]> Few public figures, in the last half of the twentieth century, have commanded as much world-wide attention as the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
( Published Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 12:45 pm )]]> A heart warming story about Ann Margret and her Vietnam gentlemen.
( Published Sunday, December 24th, 2023 @ 11:25 pm )]]> In the Pines, a John Locke Foundation-produced short film based on the 1898 insurrection that toppled Wilmington's elected local government, recently won Best Film and two other awards at the Golden Hour Film Festival in Morganton.
( Published Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 7:30 am )]]> Juneteenth is the fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence.
( Published Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 8:13 am )]]> King Charles is busy preparing for his coronation in a few weeks, which will include a cross containing shards of wood from the cross that's believed to have been used to crucify Jesus Christ.
( Published Monday, May 1st, 2023 @ 4:04 pm )]]> "What does the name James K. Polk mean to you?"
( Published Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 9:11 pm )]]> A sphinx-like statue and a Roman-era stone slab with inscriptions on it have been discovered in Egpyt, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced in a press release Monday.
( Published Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 6:32 pm )]]> A schooner barge that sank with its lifeboat still attached in Lake Huron 128 years ago has been discovered, the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary announced Wednesday.
( Published Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 2:30 pm )]]> Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the Apollo 7 mission and a Korean War veteran, has died in a Houston hospital at 90.
( Published Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 6:29 pm )]]> With its shallow inlets, North Carolina's Outer Banks became a haven for many pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 @ 2:31 am )]]> How a coastal North Carolina city became the site of America's only coup d'etat
( Published Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 4:58 am )]]> August 15, 1754 | Benjamin Hawkins was born in Warren County. He became one of North Carolina's first United States Senators.
( Published Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 2:25 pm )]]> This is what I call making a difference. If you are or have ever had a teacher like this, say a private or public thank you if they are still around.
( Published Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 11:26 pm )]]>