January 1776 – Berkshire Mountains – Upstate New York: The colonial soldiers and volunteers refused to go any further. The mission was too difficult and dangerous. Colonel Henry Knox, a 25-year-old former Boston bookstore owner, pleaded and begged the men to continue....
July 26, 1943 – Bryan Air Field – Bryan, Texas: The alcohol and testosterone flowed freely that night at the Officer’s Club bar. The worthiness of the AT-6 trainer airplane and the hurricane churning off the Texas coast were the hot topics of conversation. The British...
September 7, 1854 – London, England: The most dreaded disease of the age, cholera, was back with a vengeance. There were more caskets than the horse-drawn hearse wagons could carry away. In Soho, one of London’s poorest neighborhoods, more than 500 people died in five...
August 1936 – Berlin, Germany: German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was excited to host the Summer Olympics. It allowed him an opportunity to showcase Nazi Germany on the world stage. He had high hopes that German athletes would dominate the games and validate his...
February 21, 2012 – Mobile Infirmary Hospital, Mobile, Alabama: The doctor called Barbara in the late afternoon. There was urgency in his voice. He wanted her in Mobile for an early morning biopsy the following day, and she would need a driver. Her sister Kathy...
1941 – Marseille, France: Nancy remembered seeing a French woman tied to a stake while a Nazi soldier ripped open her pregnant stomach with his bayonet. German officers stood by smoking cigarettes as the woman bled to death with her two-year-old crying by her side....
