Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Casablanca

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We viewed the perennial favorite over two nights for Bastille Day weekend. The story and its presentation hold up well over the years. There...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Liza Mundy Breaks the Code and Misses the Message

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Write about what you know. Write from your experience. Those two mandates are easily given to anyone who wants to write for a living. They a...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

World War II Victory Dinner and Dance

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Once again, the Texas Military Forces Museum and the Texas Military Forces Historical Foundation hosted their annual Valentine's Day Swe...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

General Henri Guisan and Swiss Neutrality

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Switzerland was surrounded and divided. Germany had annexed Austria. Italy was Germany’s ally. France had fallen. Denmark, Norway, Yugoslav...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

World War II Sweetheart Dance (2019)

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We had a great time at the Texas Military Forces Museum Valentine’s dance. This year, we prepared by taking dancing lessons. I signed us up...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

CODES AND COINS

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Coins were invented about 600 BCE, about 3000 years after money (as we understand it) was invented. Within three generations, by 500 BCE, c...
Monday, January 28, 2019

The Wise Men

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Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, and George Kennan were names that I grew up with, reading daily newspapers and weekly news magazines from t...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

Book Review: The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson

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This book was a pleasant surprise and a disappointment. The premise offers an original context for understanding the events of the 1930s an...