[yotuwp type="videos" id="MLCupx1UExg" ] Video of the Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, shot by Marine photographer Bill Genaust. 23 February 1945.  A few years ago, an amateur researcher named Eric Krelle made a blockbuster discovery about the famous photograph of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Krelle figured

I bet everyone has found themselves in the precarious situation when your phone dies at the most inconvenient time. Half-way to your destination and forgot your charger? Lost! Chatting with your beau, he’s saying all the right things, the phone dies. Was he about to tell me he loves me! The world will never know.Enter

Veterans tend to be viewed in our country as two extremes: Patriotic, devoted heroes or disabled and damaged, in need of aid. Either way, it's assumed they are hard to relate to.    Many of our assumptions come from the images we see played out on TV and in the movies:  The late actor

Look closely at this picture of a British Spitfire in World War II. Those aren’t bombs under its wing. They’re beer barrels. If you talk with a veteran long enough about their service, the subject of alcohol almost always comes up. Getting it, drinking it, or surviving its absence are near universal fixations in

Next time you’re talking with a Vietnam veteran, ask if they’re carrying a P-38. Chances are, they have one in their pocket. Virtually anyone who served in the Army or Marine Corps--even Air Force--between World War II and the 1980s is well familiar with the P-38 can opener, perhaps the most versatile and  perfectly