Pierre, SD - Next week, America will observe its 56th Veterans Day. It hasn’t always been so. In 1938, Congress declared November 11 - designated “Armistice Day” - as a federal holiday to commemorate the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when World War I ended. In 1954, at the urging of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Congress ( Read more... )

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World War I is fading from public memory. World War II was, after all, so much more horrific, especially because of the slaughter perpetrated on civilians populations by the Nazis, the Japanese, and the Italians, and because of the way it ended, with the use of two atomic bombs on Japan and the dawn of the Atomic Age. 50-60 million people or ( Read more... )

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There are necessary wars -- at least, from the perspective of defenders -- but no good ones. War sucks. World War I sucked about the hardest of all -- it actually started because of treaties that had been put in place to prevent it! Many people erroneously believe that in war, killing enemy is the goal. That's not true. Winning objectives is ( Read more... )