Yes, anything can be taken out of context–even the Bible–then twisted to mean something different. Political spinsters make a living by hoodwinking the gullible on television. One local “news” spot made the German “Immortals” marching for ethnic “identity” come across…
As Bob Drew of Hill City fought his way across Europe through the Battle of the Bulge and across the Bridge at Remagen as part of the US Army’s 90th Infantry Division, he remembers stumbling into the bombed out ruins…
A common sight at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally are the bikers who identify themselves as “combat” veterans, apparently in opposition to veterans who weren’t in harm’s way or who may never have left the US. A friend of…
Maybe it started back when the parlor Victrola introduced canned music and emotions as a substitute for the real thing. Aren’t family relationships a shadow of what they once were? Now television and movies supply a dramatic world…
by Duke Doering By August 5, 1917 all units of the South Dakota National Guard were mobilized at their local armories or in state military camps, and were actively recruiting up to full wartime strength while conducting…
On Saturday, August 9, Major Curt Nupen (USAF ret) of Piedmont will offer a PowerPoint presentation about his experiences as an Electronic Warfare Officer in B-52s in the Vietnam War’s Operation Linebacker II. Sponsored by the Black Hills Veterans Writing…
If Shakespeare were applying for a job teaching high school English, he would be turned down. Einstein wouldn’t be qualified to share his passion for physics either. Neither had the credentials acquired in college education training programs, the ultimate in…
Outsourcing of manufacturing isn’t always a good idea. Sure, pollution is cut back, but so are American jobs, especially in key industries that will be needed if the US has to quickly switch to a wartime footing, as happened in…
“In 1939, a decade into the Great Depression and with unemployment still at 17 percent, the NYPD had just three hundred new slots to offer its next class and a vast pool of applicants–thirty-three thousand men,” reports US sociologist Charles…
Being too immersed in your native culture keeps people from seeing the forest for the trees. Novelist James Joyce had to leave his native Ireland for a sojourn in Switzerland to finally get a perspective on what was happening back…