If he had lived, today would have been the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg. And he could still have been alive; his contemporary and fellow Holocaust fighter Nicholas Winton still is, at 103.

But not of the Lost Ark. Yesterday, I note, was the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. Four of the remaining five raiders (three of whom I have been so lucky as to get to meet) attended the annual reunion yesterday. Even the daughter of a Chinese official who helped the Raiders escape, back in '42 (and who presented them with a translation ( Read more... )

Having just seen the trailer for George Lucas's upcoming movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, Red Tails, I can't wait to see it. Lucas's record is uneven, to say the least, as is that of WWII movies in general in recent years, but it looks as though there's at least a considerable number of exciting fighting scenes, and I'll take my chances on the ( Read more... )