Kingdom of Chaos

 Found my blog gone, took the steps to restore it. I'd like to think I can come back and blog one of these fine days. Likely I won't...

Today is the U.S. Army's 246th birthday. The Army is in fact older than the country it defends: what is now the United States Army was f...

  Today is the bicentennal annivesary of the death of Napoleon. “At 5:50 p.m. the retreat gun was heard, and the sun disappeared in a flash ...

I was going through some old notes and documents I'd set aside, and found some scribbled impressions of The Last Jedi. Suffice it to say...

When you go home, Tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, We gave our today. Inscription, British War Memorial, Kohima, India. (att...

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, first American in Space, in his capsule "Freedom 7 " during a test shortly prior to his flight o...

I've blogged on this subject before, and this post appeared, slightly differently, a couple of years ago. But the Battle of Sharpsburg i...