This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Mighty Eighth Air Force It was activated on January 28, 1942, shortly after my father’s 18th birthday, one month after he had enlisted in the US Army Air Corps…

Over the years, Gettysburg Memorial Day celebrations have featured many distinguished speakers including Rutherford Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover (whose remarks were broadcast by both CBS and NBC radio networks) and Franklin Roosevelt For Memorial…

My father hung this framed photograph of General Crumm and him in his office, displayed alongside the portraits of presidents and other dignitaries It had been taken just months before General Crumm was killed in the Vietnam…