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By Rich Thurmond No two men fought the same Vietnam War. Each Marine, Soldier, Sailor, or Airman carried his own war on his back, shaped...
By Todd DePastino Below is one of the toughest first-person homecoming stories I’ve ever read. And it doesn’t come from an abused Vietnam Veteran or...
By Todd DePastino On February 23, 1945, five days into the Battle of Iwo Jima, a patrol of U.S. Marines raised an American flag atop...
By John R. Terry “If you choose a fair fight, you chose the wrong fight.” The most favorable outcome in combat is simple to state...
An Iraqi woman bakes flatbread. (Public Domain) By Brennan Morton After graduating from the University of New Hampshire, Brennan Morton joined the Marine Corps and...
Leaf from Virgil’s Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid. (Walters Art Museum) By Dr. Joshua Cannon An Arabic cryptologic linguist with the Marine Corps from 2000 to...
The lithograph that hung in the McKinley family dining room. Combat artist and Army Lieutenant Rudolph Charles von Ripper made it from a sketch he...
The author in Saudi Arabia, 1990. (Stacey Rubin) By Stacey H. Rubin Stacey H. Rubin was an active-duty Army nurse from 1989-1992, stationed at Fort...
By Todd DePastino It’s the question of the day: why does President Trump want the United States to own Greenland? President Trump may be singular...
Q&A with Author Wil Haygood By Daria Sommers In his latest book, The War Within A War, author Wil Haygood lays bare the psychological burden...
Albert DeFazio somewhere in Italy, circa 1944-45. (Albert DeFazio) By Albert DeFazio World War II veteran Albert DeFazio, a Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient,...
When Americans think of World War II in Europe, they usually picture Normandy hedgerows or the frozen forests of the Battle of the Bulge. Italy,...
