Navy Capt. Richard Stratton, who survived six brutal years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, was quietly laid to rest last month in his hometown of Quincy, MA. He was 93. He was an authentic American hero right…
It’s rightly been called the airlift that saved Israel. And an airlift that interrupted my English history professor’s lectures. On Oct. 6, 1973, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, Israel was attacked by the Soviet-backed forces of Egypt and Syria….
At first, the speaker solemnly recounted, the invading aircraft dropped tear gas bombs but the “soldiers learned to scatter, waiting until the wind had rapidly dispersed the poisonous gas.” Adjusting their tactics, the aircraft then dropped barrels of mustard gas….
