Author: MYLIFE

The Man Who Almost Lost the War

Major General Daniel Sickles.  The most famous–some would say notorious–political general of the Civil War, Sickles’s actions on the battlefield contributed to the stunning Union defeat at Chancellorsville, and he almost lost…

The Grounding

While the world media has been focused on yesterday’s crash landing of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport, the following aviation-related announcement caught our eye; from…

Undisciplined

Dave Micelli is a veteran teacher in the Baltimore city school system.  Recently, he submitted a letter to the Baltimore Sun, ridiculing the paper’s editorial on the need for “better schools”…

Tidal Wave

B-24s over Ploesti on 1 August 1943.  The raid on Axis oil facilities in Romania resulted in heavy lossess of planes and crews, but paved the way for later, successful…