My old­est boy and I have been read­ing the 50th anniver­sary edi­tion of “Harold and the Pur­ple Crayon” by Crock­ett John­son for a cou­ple of nights now. It’s a nice hard­back col­lec­tion of four of the Harold sto­ries and Noah has been com­pletely enthralled by it. He’ll talk about Harold falling off of a mountain […]

Con­tin­ued from Part I. Down­fall would have been the largest amphibi­ous land­ing in his­tory, includ­ing 42 air­craft car­ri­ers, 24 bat­tle­ships, 400 destroy­ers and other ships. Four­teen U.S. divi­sions A divi­sion is a large mil­i­tary unit usu­ally con­sist­ing of around ten to twenty thou­sand sol­diers. would take part also as they used Oki­nawa as a staging […]

The show “Heroes” started out as a fun but deriv­a­tive con­cept — the hero ori­gin story. More point­edly, “Heroes” is a take on the X-Men. You’ve got your mind reader (Pro­fes­sor X), the guy who can fly (Angel), the girl who can regen­er­ate (Wolver­ine), the girl who can look like any­thing (Mys­tique) and a bunch […]

Well…you should. Here it is. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unan­i­mous Dec­la­ra­tion of the thir­teen united States of Amer­ica When in the Course of human events it becomes nec­es­sary for one peo­ple to dis­solve the polit­i­cal bands which have con­nected them with another and to assume among the pow­ers of the earth, the sep­a­rate and […]

As 1944 turned into 1945 an Allied vic­tory in the Pacific was creep­ing closer to real­ity. Lit­tle by lit­tle Amer­i­can forces were rolling up the Japan­ese defenses one island at a time as they pushed the invaders back fur­ther and fur­ther towards the Japan­ese main­land. Guam had been taken, the Philip­pines were being con­tained and […]