Following the signing of the August 2010 agreement with the prison service, Republican POWs continually attempted to resolve all outstanding issues. Despite the continued use of the brutal forced str… more →
KANSAS MEDIOCRITYwrote 3 days ago: The bridge on a cloudy day Today was all about visiting the bridge on the river Kwai and learning ab … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Story of the Day for Wednesday May 15, 2013 Able to Spot Their Priests Remi … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Day 31 – 33. A lasting impression. Most people have an inkling that the Japanese acted like ab … more →
wrote 1 week ago: NOTE: Snopes calls the reports of Hanoi Jane’s actions false. http://www.snopes.com/military/ … more →
wrote 1 week ago: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم {وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَالْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Moving north of Bangkok Most package tourists will go straight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, generally … more →
wrote 1 month ago: An Army chaplain who the White House says braved “withering enemy fire” to provide medi … more →
wrote 1 month ago: فَإِذا لَقِيتُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فَضَرْبَ الرِّقَابِ حَتَّى إِذَا أَثْخَنْتُمُوهُمْ فَشُدُّوا الْ … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I have noticed an interesting effect of age. I no longer put off doing a major job properly. So in t … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Bill Mauldin must have seen the same newspaper photo I put into the last post. His cartoons helped t … more →
wrote 1 month ago: In the COFEPOW quarterly newsletter, there is a short piece about the memoirs of Signalman W G Riley … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I see on the WordPress site http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com several mentions of Luzon and a … more →
wrote 1 month ago: A Royal Airforce (RAF) veteran from Wythenshaw, Manchester, recently embarked upon a Lottery-funded … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I love the randomness of existence; so Monday morning there was a knock on the door and a great lorr … more →
wrote 2 months ago: This is the research unit that I did with my Regents students. We took ten class days to prepare fo … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Fonda got her politics and patriotism confused. Apparently her father also was confused: I’d just as … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday was a weird day. We were expecting bad weather yet the sun was shining bright, so I scramb … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I guess you are probably wondering whether I have disappeared completely. No, we have just been hav … more →
wrote 2 months ago: On the TV last evening a program about a right-wing group at the beginning of the WWII. The conseque … more →