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Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette This is your morning Open Thread. Pour your favorite beverage and review the past and comment on the future. Find the past "On This Day in History" here. Click on images to enlarge April 29 is the 119th day...

The following is the text of a speech that was given today down in Baltimore about a Pearl Harbor survivor, by the brother of a dear friend and long time customer. It is uncanny how I find so many similarities in my own father's life, another survivor...

Note: This review is by my husband Jim. Why yet another book on the battle for Western Europe in World War II? It’s a story oft told, but seldom as well told as by Rick Atkinson. Atkinson set a high standard for popular military history in his...

 Long before Trayvon Martin’s death sparked a national debate and demonstrations, the shooting of another teenager, James H. Ito, raised questions involving race, violence, and justice—except Ito’s case took place 70 years ago...

War Crimes on the Road to Pearl Harbor by Craig Nelson In August 1937 Japanese troops invaded Shanghai. Chinese resistance was strong, and it took four months for the Imperial Japanese Army to triumph. The Japanese then burned the town of Sung-chiang...