We received notes from Vietnam veterans about our Scuttlebutt episode on the music of war, especially Vietnam. Here are two remembrances by Vietnam veterans Rich Doerr and George Dvorznak:   Music to My Ears by Rich Doerr On May 17, 2015, I was watching the final episode of Mad Men.  The TV

by Todd DePastino  Ten years ago, I toured the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, with a group of World War II veterans, including Charles Utz. We stopped at the rear of a B-17 bomber, and Charles began talking. He told me of being shot down on Christmas Eve

Syrian Su-22 being shot down by US F/A-18E (US Navy) Our guest with Pete Mecca on Thursday night at 7:00pm, USAF Col. (Ret.) Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez, is only American pilot to shoot down three planes in the past 40 years. What happened to air-to-air combat? Why so few dogfights since

by Derek Sansone (wikipedia.org) Military history is rife with D-Days—but none like the one that took place 77 years ago on June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, began the liberation of Western Europe. The operation was an unsurpassed masterpiece of planning, as several historians have noted.

Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant man who, if he had felt free to pursue any profession he wanted, might have become the world’s leading mathematician. But he got one thing badly wrong. Toward the end of his life, he swore he remembered the Founding Fathers gathering on July 4, 1776 in Independence