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by | Dec 6, 2021

No reason needed to fly the American flag. But flying the colors today may be even more appropriate than other…

by | Dec 6, 2021

Three weeks past my 15th birthday, I attended the New York Giants-Brooklyn Dodgers football game at the Polo Grounds with…

by | Dec 5, 2021

Former Republican Senator, majority leader, and 1996 presidential candidate Bob Dole died in his sleep Sunday morning. He was 98,…

by | Nov 13, 2021

It befuddled the world. Only weeks after Germany’s unconditional surrender on V-E Day, the man who inspired Britain in its…

by | Nov 12, 2021

We recently commemorated another “Veterans Day” — known by an earlier generation as Armistice Day. On November 11, 1918, the…

by | Nov 7, 2021

As tensions increase between China and the United States over the South China Sea and Taiwan, American strategists and statesmen…

by | Oct 27, 2021

Convicted in the Nuremberg trials, Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, spent 20 years in Spandau Prison. His release in 1966 made…

by | Oct 15, 2021

Growing up in New York City, I started playing sand-lot baseball in Central Park at age 9. I collected hundreds…

by | Dec 12, 2006

The Fire: The Bombing of Germany 1940-1945 by Jörg Friedrich, translated by Allison Brown (Columbia University Press, 552 pages, $34.95)…

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