By Ellie DePastino I’ve lived in Chicago for nearly 3 years. But every once in a while, I learn something new about Illinoisans. Such as the fact that nearly the whole city observes a local holiday every first Monday in March in honor of the father of the American Cavalry: Casimir
Pete Mecca’s Conversation with Dick Cole, 2017 Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. You can see this interview on Pete’s site here. LT COL. RICHARD ‘DICK’ COLE AND AUTHOR PETE MECCA WWII Days at Falcon Field lived up to expectations once again this past weekend. A gorgeous
Join us Tuesday night at 7pm on Zoom, when we talk with Clarence “Bud” Anderson, WWII P-51 Ace, USAF Test Pilot, and Vietnam Wing Commander. Over the course of a 30-year Air Force career, Clarence “Bud” Anderson flew over 100 types of aircraft and logged over 7,000 hour of flight. That’s almost
By Rick Altman Rick Altman in Vietnam, 1966 Every February 25, I think of what might have been and am grateful. I served with the Marines in Vietnam in 1966, came home, went to school, moved on with life. But I missed the military. Coming from a bad family
By Brad Washabaugh, Colonel, USMC (ret) Norman Schwarzkopf photo from wikipedia.org Bright Star 89 was the dress rehearsal for Desert Storm conducted in the Oman desert in the summer of 1989. I was the operations officer for 3rd Bn, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. As a major, I was
By James Lutz image from rallypoint.com In the summer of 1956, after completing six weeks of Basic Training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, I was assigned to Scott Air Force Base at Belleville, Illinois, to become a Personnel Records Specialist, Airman First Class. We lived in a two-story
