On this Pearl Harbor Day, we remember Bob Dole’s service to the nation in World War Two, as well as the service and the sacrifice of all the members of the Greatest Generation.
I’ve always said that if Tom Brokaw’s 1998 book about World War II veterans, “The Greatest Generation,” had come out a few years earlier, George H.W. Bush would have been re-elected in 1992.
A caller and several service member guests on Breitbart News Saturday discussed this year’s Army-Navy football game, as well as the current new greatest generation now at the nation’s military academies or otherwise currently serving the United States in military uniform.
The remains of a U.S. Marine who was killed in action during World War II finally completed the 70-year journey from a South Pacific atoll to his home in Texas. His body has been missing since 1943. His remains were finally identified and have been returned to Hereford, Texas in time for Memorial Day. Private Mathies was one of 1,200 Marines killed during the 3-day battle Battle of Tarawa.
It’s an incontrovertible fact that millions of lives were saved because President Harry Truman dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. I know because I’m one of them.
Millennials have less confidence in the future of the United States compared to older generations, according to a report from the Pew Research Center.
Sunnyside Memory Gardens cemetery in Charles City, Iowa is removing military markers by veterans’ headstones in the cemetery. When one family asked why, they were told it was because the markers are “too hard to mow around.”
