Back in the early 1800s the area that is now the Town of Pulaski had many streams flowing through the watershed that fed Peak Creek. Early settlers had little trouble…
Between the years 1819 and 1839, the village of Newbern grew from a few scattered buildings along the Wilderness Road to dozens of buildings and several hundred people. The Nashville…
“I’m saving up coupons to get one of those.” Those are some of the words of a 1930s song that points out one of the gimmicks born of The Great…
Newbern lost the railroad in the 1850s, but in the year 1893 it was still s busy little village, and because it was still the county seat, on court days…
This will be my last article on Iwo Jima in this series. I have tried to give an accurate account of the battle as I saw it, and I hope…
Each Marine Division on Iwo Jima had its own cemetery. The 4th Division cemetery was dedicated on March 14, 1945. General Howlin Mad Smith had tears in his eyes when…
The three marine divisions – 3rd, 4th, and 5th Divisions – moved from the beachhead established on the first day of fighting on the Island of Iwo Jima, southward to…
When Joe Rosenthal’s famous photograph of the flag raising on Mount Surabachi, Iwo Jima reached the White House, President Franklin Roosevelt was awestruck. He immediately sent out an order that…
This is a continuation of last week’s article entitled Iwo Jima that sketched the battle for Iwo Jima, from D-Day to day five, the day the American flag went up…
The fact that America’s conquest of the Island of Iwo Jima was in the month of March, and the HBO series, “Pacific” is now underway, led me to give an…
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