You can tell a lot about a naval aviator just by his call sign. Recall in Top Gun, Tom Cruise..
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“Back in the day,” as my wife likes to say, when she and I were in high school, there were..
After seeing a film, or reading an inspiring account of military heroism or accomplishment, it has become common to ask,..
After my first year-anda-half as a POW in North Vietnam, I was taken to the prison commander’s office one day..
My, how time flies. Can you believe that this month marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam..
One night in mid-1966, in a satellite prison we called the “Zoo” on the outskirts of Hanoi, North Vietnam, I..
When John F. Kennedy was elected president of our country, he loaded his cabinet with highly intelligent individuals who were..
According to an AP report out of Cairo, Egypt’s new president, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, opened the new year with a..
Anyone who knows a Texan knows how proud Texans are of “Texas Hospitality.” I have a Texan friend (aside from..
Like many who have read Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken, the impeccably researched story of Olympic runner Louie Zamperini, the film..
Christmas Eve of 1968 found me less than two years into my seven-year incarceration as a POW in North Vietnam...
In this column, I’m turning over a new leaf. I’m finished with my anti-Obama crusade. Mmmhmm, you might think; why..
Last week I was in our nation’s Capitol, and as is my usual routine, I spent some time at the..
One of the lasting realizations from our recent trip to Manhattan: The place is perpetually under repair or construction. It..
As bad as the Ebola epidemic may seem, it has occurred to me that there is a far more dangerous..
“The Military Writers Society of America has awarded its gold medal for historical fiction to Hawaii author Richard McMahon for..
As I compose this column, I realize it was in the evening exactly two weeks ago that wife Susan and..
My last column, in which I laid out my own concep tion of the likely Ferguson grand jury findings on..
I’ll never forget the sense of betrayal I felt when, in 1992, America watched the beating of Rodney King, a..
As I pen this column, my fingers are crossed for the continuation of a cease-fire between Israel and the Gaza..
