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The impressions of our youth are indelibly branded in our hearts and minds. As I think of June 6, 1944 (D Day) it always seems that it was my war. I was nine years old.
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 12:38 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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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: Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 12:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Frances Carol Lewis Warren was born in Washington on June 15, 1944 to Ottis Brian Lewis and Clarcie Whitehurst Lewis.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 @ 7:59 am
By: Announcements
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On December 26th, a late Christmas gift finally arrived: General George S. Patton and his Third Army severed the German lines completely ...
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2025 @ 11:39 am
By: Daily Wire
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Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe and his men — many from the 101st Airborne Division, along with some stragglers from Pennsylvania’s 28th Infantry Division (known as “The Bloody Bucket”) and the 9th Armored “Phantom” Division — spent Christmas of 1944 in the Belgian city of Bastogne
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2024 @ 1:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Facing near certain defeat in the West, Adolph Hitler rolled the bones one last time in December 1944 with a Winter strike through the Ardennes. A month before he swapped a loaded pair of dice into the game when he summoned Otto Skorzeny and tasked him with the execution of Unternehmen Greif.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 11:00 am
By: The Correspondent
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America in 1944 was vastly different from the nation we are today.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 5:19 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Victor Davis Hanson devotes his latest National Review Online column to the Democrats’ selection of a running mate for presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On December 16, 1944, Nazi forces launched their last major offensive campaign on the Western Front of World War II, deep in the Ardennes Forest.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2019 @ 9:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly referred to as the G.I. Bill, to ensure that our service members returning home from World War II would receive the care and benefits they earned while defending freedom from tyranny
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 12:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Eleanor Rodman May of Washington, NC, died peacefully at home on Thursday, March 29th, 2018. Mrs. May was born in Washington, NC on May 23rd, 1944
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: Announcements
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