Tag Archives: U.S. Military

The Army football team was on the periphery of the college football playoff mix in 2024. I noted that the Army-Navy game was played after the playoff field was finalized. This led to a research project.

Examining Greanda’s annual October 25 Thanksgiving, which commemorates the beginning of the 1983 American-led intervention to restore order in the small Caribbean nation.

The professor made an induction from the fact one older student addressed him as sir.

“Flowers to their memory, / This fair spring day!”

“You made a magnificent beginning; a grand consummation is within your easy reach. Do not let it slip.”

The first Veterans Day proclamation.

“Without a sordid thought of fame / he to his Country gave his best.”

“They who were fathers and brothers once / Are peacefully resting here.”

Remembering the war to which Veterans Day owes its date with a harrowing story of a “double quarantine”

“In the land he loved next to his own he will always lie, content that he gave his all to a cause that was so near to his heart.”

Re-touched photos of an April 2020 military flyover of New York City.

On seeing a 2020 Blue Angeles-Thunderbirds joint-military flyover of New York City.