Since returning from the Middle East, the deputy state chaplain of the Minnesota Army National Guard has labored to convince members of Minnesota's religious community - many of whom oppose the war - to support the soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. More than that, he wants them to...
Some of you may have noticed a new tab on this website for “Eli’s Army Base”. This is a project being led by some friends of ours that would like to see a new playground structure built at the park near the Iowa State Football Stadium in Ames. All of you long time followers kn...
Nuclear clean-up workers are often referred to as “liquidators.” In the instance of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown, an estimated 600,000 liquidators were hired to clean up the mess, or contain it, rather, and many of them were soldiers in the Russian Army.They were found to have had“tot...