Get our free mobile app Most of us are too young to remember the attack, so we rely on people like Darrel to tell the story. He was there. Seventeen years old. When he looked at me as he told the story, you could tell by the look in his eye and the sound in his voice, it ...
First off, to be able to celebrate Armed Forces Day in the Lone Star State one must know the history of how it came about. It was August 31st, 1949 when the Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of a new holiday Armed Forces Day. ...
“Here in San Diego they said each family can have a truck, and we could fill that truck up and did not have to worry. But after three days they said…no more trucks…you just get that one suitcase.” Wada still owns the modest suitcase that held everything he was allowed to bring...
Once the shooting started, the American landing zone turned into a cauldron of shell bursts and mortar fire. Thomas McPhatter, one of several hundred African American Marines who joined in the attack as amphibious truck drivers and ammunition handlers, later described the hellish scene to theGuardia...
” which reached No. 1 in April 2022. The following April, her “Heart Like a Truck” peaked at No. 2, as did “wait in the truck,” her collaboration with HARDY the same month. She then returned to the top spot with “Watermelon Moonshine” and “Save Me” in October and ...