by Richard Lee | Jun 13, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
It has been called THE GREAT WAR and THE WAR TO END ALL WARS. For more than a century Americans obeyed George Washington’s injunction in his Farewell Address to keep out of the political affairs of Europe. That obedience ended on April 6, 1917 when Congress voted for...
by Richard Lee | May 13, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
For more than two years after World War II started in Europe, Americans debated what U.S. policy should be toward the Axis Powers. Anti-interventionist leaders bitterly denounced what they saw as an unnecessary involvement by the US in the affairs of Europe. The...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
Here is a sampling of the significant military events with milestone anniversaries this year: 25th Anniversary of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, August 2, 1990 On a map, Kuwait looks like a small and inconsequential patch of land. But to Iraqi dictator Saddam...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
The capture of Richmond had been the goal of the Union Army since the beginning of the Civil War. The Confederate capital lay tantalizingly close to Washington, only 100 miles, but it took four years of hard battle before the city fell to Union troops on April 3,...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
Although officially celebrating our 125th anniversary this year, the Malvern area was originally settled by Welsh immigrants in the 17th century who bought land from William Penn.Churches, trains, and a few businesses were the nucleus of the village. In 1835, the East...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
“If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war,” U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson once said, “the unanimous choice would have been Korea.” Since the beginning of the 20th...
