By June 8-1944, the total number of Allied troops killed two days previous, on D-Day, totaled more than 4,000. Of those four thousand, 2,501 were Americans, mostly killed on Omaha Beach in the first wave at 6:30 a.m., while other Americans were killed scaling the cliffs of Utah. I shared this a few years ago, […]
Today is May 4, 2024. Fifty-four years ago today, protests were raging around this land of ours. Four young people were killed in the state of Ohio. America appeared to be “on fire.” A war was raging 8,000 miles away from our shores to the rice paddies of Vietnam…and so I begin. I have never
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Years ago, I was working Upstate New York, heading to Buffalo, when one of those lake-effect snow storms came out of nowhere. I remember seeing stuff about these on the Weather Channel when winter began in Upstate NY, but I was never IN one of these storms. Well, I was still about 10 miles from
