Saudi Crown Prince: Israel Has a Right to its Own Land

Saudi Crown Prince: Israel Has a Right to its Own Land

In a stunning turn of events, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview posted on Monday. While outwardly the ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv are appearing to grow closer, there remain obstacles in their paths. But to hear a Saudi crown prince echo […]

After Families are Gone Home, Enjoy an Easter Epic, Ben-Hur

After Families are Gone Home, Enjoy an Easter Epic, Ben-Hur

Unlike some of the other times of the year when we glued to the screen watching action films that coincide with the particular time of year, there aren’t too many what we’d call “Easter” themed films. But after we celebrate what Easter is all about and enjoy our time with our families, there are a […]

Veterans Behind Bars, Finding Support in Special Cell Blocks

Veterans Behind Bars, Finding Support in Special Cell Blocks

The Monroe County Jail outside of Rochester, NY has a special veterans’ housing unit and is one of about 80 different pods across the country. Rochester’s opened in September and the goal is to put the veterans in a different setting where they are more likely to feel in a military setting. That is hoped […]

US Military Tells Disabled Vet He Owes $15,000 in Separation Pay

US Military Tells Disabled Vet He Owes $15,000 in Separation Pay

Darrell “Smitty” Smith is being told that the $15,000 “Special Separation” pay that he received more than 25 years ago has turned into a loan. And now that he is 100 percent disabled due to numerous ankle and back surgeries from his time in service, he may lose his home and his boxing gym where […]

FBI Makes an Arrest in the Suspicious Package Case

FBI Makes an Arrest in the Suspicious Package Case

The FBI has arrested a man in the Seattle, Washington area on Monday in connection with more than a dozen suspicious packages sent to government and military addresses on the East Coast, most of them in the nation’s capital, the FBI said Tuesday. Tranh Cong Phan, 43, was arrested at his home in the Seattle area […]

Trump Wants the Military to Foot the Bill for the Border Wall

Trump Wants the Military to Foot the Bill for the Border Wall

The much-ballyhooed border wall that President Trump touted during his presidential campaign was again in the news on Tuesday. The President, in speaking with some of his closest advisers, floated the idea of funding the construction of a wall on the Mexican border through the military’s budget according to sources. Trump discussed the idea in […]

Multiple Military Bases in DC Area Sent Suspicious Packages

Multiple Military Bases in DC Area Sent Suspicious Packages

The FBI is investigating the sending of multiple suspicious packages to military bases and CIA HQs in the Washington D.C. area, officials stated on Monday. The FBI had taken custody of the packages that one official stated was more than 10 of these crude devices. They said packages were sent to the CIA, Fort Belvoir […]

Elvis Presley Helps the USS Arizona Memorial With a Benefit Concert

Elvis Presley Helps the USS Arizona Memorial With a Benefit Concert

On March 25, 1961, Elvis Presley did a benefit concert for the Arizona Memorial which raised over $62,000 and helped to restart public funding for the war memorial that so many Americans visit every year. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States quickly rebuilt its facilities there and raised […]

Trump Replaces McMaster as National Security Adviser with Hardliner Bolton

Trump Replaces McMaster as National Security Adviser with Hardliner Bolton

U.S. President Donald Trump in yet another shakeup of his foreign policy team, on Thursday, replaced H.R. McMaster as national security adviser with John Bolton. Bolton will be the third national security adviser of the Trump White House already and is a hawk who has advocated using military force against North Korea and Iran. The […]

Trump to Limit Transgender Troops Service? New Policy Expected Friday

Trump to Limit Transgender Troops Service? New Policy Expected Friday

The Trump Administration has a new policy on the sticky subject of transgender troops that will likely restrict their service. The policy is slated to go into effect on Friday and comes after months of court challenges and talks inside the Defense Department. In August, President Trump sent Defense Secretary Jim Mattis a memo ordering […]

Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, Last Large Cavalry Clash of the Civil War

Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, Last Large Cavalry Clash of the Civil War

The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, sometimes known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road was the last major cavalry engagement of the Civil War. The Union cavalry called it colloquially “Kilpatrick’s Shirttail Skedaddle”. It took place in what is now northeastern Fort Bragg, NC.  Confederate cavalry under the command of Major General Wade Hampton and MG […]

New Balance Strikes Deal To Manufacture Shoes for the Military

New Balance Strikes Deal To Manufacture Shoes for the Military

New Balance announced it had reached a $17.3 million agreement to make sneakers for the military. The Boston-based shoe brand will make the new 950v2 specifically for the military. “This is a great win for the preservation and growth of American manufacturing jobs,” says Rob DeMartini, President & CEO at New Balance. The brand currently […]