by Kim Mitchell James and Kim Mitchell. Photo courtesy of author. No one who joined our VBC Happy Hour with Kim Mitchell and Bao Tran in 2020 will ever forget their gripping story of how a South Vietnamese Marine rescued an orphaned baby from streets of Quang Tri City
There Will Always Be Storms by George Zwaagstra George Zwaagstra, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1954 George Zwaagstra was born in Tjerkwerd, Friesland, the Netherlands in 1933 and emigrated to Canada in 1951. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and became a Canadian citizen in 1956. He lives in Halifax, Nova
by Todd DePastino The citizens of Los Angeles were on edge. A Japanese submarine had just shelled the Ellwood Oil Fields in Santa Barbara. Press reports of the attack were muted, but rumors swirled. Was a West Coast invasion imminent? At 2:25am on February 25, 1942, the city's worst fears appeared overhead in
Researchers reviewed records of more than 2.5 million post-9/11 veterans and found almost 4,000 more of them had died than researchers expected. Many deaths were due to accidents and homicide, but rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and suicide are also higher among 18-44 year-old veterans than among comparable groups. Traumatic Brain Injury worsens the odds of
by Todd DePastino By February 1946, 42-year-old American diplomat George Kennan had spent almost half his life abroad. He'd started in the US Embassy in Moscow in 1933, then on to Prague, Berlin (where he spent six months in a Nazi prison), Lisbon, London, and back to Moscow. George F.
Thank you to John Petrus for giving us this visual tour he created of an exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum of the masterpieces recaptured from the Nazis. You can also do a deep dive into the exhibit through this audio tour at the museum’s website. From Cincinnati Art Museum Press
