SAN JOSE: In the past century American citizens have witnessed the public disrespect, disdain, desecration, and destruction of the Stars and Stripes, the flag of the United States of America. More recently football fans have been dismayed and enraged by the controversy over players insisting upon making their own controversial political statements by refusing to ...
SAN DIEGO, May 22, 2018 — The United States will honor those who served and gave their life protecting this great nation on Memorial Day, Monday May 28, 2018. Origins of Memorial Day observances Memorial Day originally known as Decoration Day, it was first celebrated in 1868 following the end of the Civil War, as ...
FORT WORTH, Texas: What’s your favorite ethnic food? Nation’s Restaurant News counts Italian, Mexican, and Chinese food as the top three in the United States. It’s not surprising. You’d be hard-pressed to not find at least one variety of restaurant representing them in virtually any town in the U.S. Recipes for each fill cookbooks brought home ...
The bond between dogs and humans has a long history together and with over 70 million family dogs in the U.S., it's clear, this is a relationship that was meant to last.
FORT WORTH, Texas: Corrie ten Boom turned 126 years old on April 15. It was also the 36th anniversary of her death. Jewish tradition considers this a great blessing. It means that the person completed the task given by God on the day she was born. And she sure did. Survivor of the barbarism of ...
FORT WORTH, Texas: Free at last. No more fleas to be thankful for; no more beatings from the brutal Aufseherin (female) guards. A mere number no longer, Corrie recalled, “When they called out ‘Prisoner 66730,’ ten Boom, Cornelia,’ I did a double-take. I hadn’t been called by my name in so long.” At the administration ...
FORT WORTH, Texas: With dashed hopes the inmates boarded overcrowded trains that took them away from Vught Prison and the Allies who were coming to rescue them. Their next stop was the notorious Ravensbrück Concentration Camp in Germany. Yet Corrie held onto hope, literally. Her sister Nollie managed to smuggle a small bible that hung from ...
FORT WORTH, Texas. — The Gestapo arrested and dragged an old man out of his happy home February 1944. The officer in charge told him that if he behaved himself, he would be back home soon and able to die in his own bed. Hearing this, 84-year-old Casper ten Boom straightened up, looked the officer ...
Florence Nightingale did improve the sanitary conditions of the field hospitals and lowering the mortality rate in the process. Due to the bravery and determination of Florence Nightingale and her Nurse's Corp., the British Army deployed more female nurses to their field hospitals.
With Passover near and for Women's History Month, remember Esther who represents a triumph of a woman of great courage because she was able to reveal the truth, a secret that no one in the palace knew: that she was a Jew. By such a bold risk, the fairy tale could have ended much differently.
St. Patrick, a teen of noble Roman birth, was taken to Ireland as a captive and enslaved by Irish slave traders around 400 AD. One day, after six years of slavery, he heard the voice of God telling him to go back to Rome. Later he returned to Ireland as a Bishop of the Church.
The existence of the Hitler Bell and the very fact that the town’s council does not remove it from the church may be a clarion call for concerned people of the Jewish, Christian and all faiths.
It is essential to remember the bravery of the Patriots at Valley Forge 240 years ago, including the Jewish patriots who joined the fight for America's freedom.
In remembering Pearl Harbor, we need to remember Edmund Burke who says, “The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.”
The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes’ nature conservancy holds historic relics as fragile as the dune’s wind-shifting sands. That and more from the 1920s
The question should not be why our world produces the occasional murderous messiah but why they are so quick to find such devoted, bloodthirsty followers.
Salvator Mundi sold for over $450 million, a record. But did da Vinci really paint it, and if he did, is it truly a masterpiece worth the price?
President Washington expressed genuine concern in that “the alternate domination” of one political party over another, thereby allowing one party to enjoy temporary power over the government that would use it to obtain revenge on the other.
What is true about Vietnam is that it became clear that we had sent more than 500,000 young Americans to fight in a war which we had no plan to win.
There are already demands to tear down statues to Washington and Jefferson; they aren't pure enough for people who have little idea about what they really did.