Comparing Pearl Harbor To 9/11
Did you know that Pearl Harbor Day is December 7th? It's been over seventy years since it happened and there aren't that many people left around that remember this day "that will live in infamy." It was a terrible event in American history and many have been comparing Pearl Harbor to 9/11. People, for years after, would ask, "Do you remember where you were when you heard about Pearl Harbor?" Since most of us were not around, here is a list of five things you should remember about the heroes who fought that day and comparing Pearl Harbor to 9/11.
Categories: History Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, FDR, franklin delano roosevelt, George W. Bush, homeland security, iraqi war, pearl harbor, Pentagon, war on terror, world trade centers, world war 2, world war two, WW2, wwII
Five Presidential Lies That Led Us To War
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries governments have used lies to get their people to enter into war. For some reason, it is often hard to get young men to give up the lives they know, drop everything and enter what is basically Hell. It is important for leaders to spin a story and build a strong esprit de corps amongst a nation's youth. While this is not always the case, it did happen quite a bit during the last century. Here are five Presidential Lies That Led Us To War! Read more...
Categories: History Tags: franklin d. roosevelt, George W. Bush, gulf of tonkin, iraq, Lyndon B. Johnson, north vietnam, Presidential Lies That Led Us To War, rms lusitania, Spanish-American War, Teddy Roosevelt, tony blair, uss maine, vietnam, war, william randolph hearst, woodrow wilson, world war 1, world war 2
American Military Heroes Lost In 2011
While the war with Iraq came to a close, the chapter on these men’s lives also ended. They were the men of World War Two and even World War One. These men were amongst the young men who answered America’s call in a much more innocent time and it is important that we do not forget them. They come from many different branches of the service and were part of some of the greatest battles of the wars. One of them is a Congressional Medal of Honor winner and one of them should be. You've seen their lives immortalized in film and can read about them in books. Here is a tribute to those heroes of the 20th century.
Categories: People's Choice Tags: 101st airborne, American Military Heroes Lost, Band of Brothers, code talkers, Congressional Medal of Honor, D-Day, dick winters, doolittle raid, fickle finger of fate, jimmy doolittle, lost battallion, Medal of Honor, military heroes, moh, navajo, pearl harbor, world war 1, world war 2, WW1, WW2
The Best Real Life, Kick Ass Female Spies
Television and the movies have a tendency to turn super-hot women into super spies who can do anything. While those women are typically figments of a man's imagination, they aren't completely off base. The women on this list were very tough, very resilient, and every bit the counterpart to male spies. Their methods of espionage may have differed from men, but every one of them certainly altered the history of the world. You've probably heard of at least three of these women. You should recognize the deeds of the other two... Read more...
Categories: History Tags: benedict arnold, D-Day, female spies, femme fatale, george washington, harriet tubman, julia childs, mata hari, women spies, world war 1, world war 2, world war one, world war two, WWI, wwII
Memorial Day Must See WW2 Movies
Memorial Day is right around the corner and one of the things I like to do over the weekend is to watch my share of war films. It is Memorial Day, right? TNT and other cable channels will show different war films all weekend. Here are five of my favorite World War Two films. I chose World War Two because there are so many good ones out there. Do you agree with my choices? Which would you choose over the ones I have picked? I was going to include Band of Brothers, but it is a mini-series and doesn't fall into this type of list, but I highly recommend that one if you haven't see it. Enjoy the list. Read more...
Categories: Entertainment, History Tags: Band of Brothers, dirty dozen, memorial day, sands of iwo jima, saving private ryan, the longest day, to hell and back, world war 2, world war two, WW2, wwII
Five Most Read myFiveBest Articles Of 2010
Now that 2010 is finally over, we can do some accounting on what articles you, the readers, enjoyed the most last year. Between our inception on May 21, 2009 and today, we've written more than 1150 posts with requests coming in daily with ideas for new opinions and quizzes. Sometimes they can be a bit overwhelming, but we keep regular statistics on what people are reading so that we can keep the topics you like the most. It's the readers that make the lists all worthwhile, so I thought, today, I'd share which were the five most read articles in 2010. The results surprised even me! Read more...
