Eras Gone

USS Arizona is the best known of the battleships sunk during the Pearl Harbor attack.  And rightly so because of the massive loss of life o...

Many years ago a co-worker gave me an old leather cigar case that was carried by a soldier during the Civil War.  The front of the case s...

Wake Island is one of my favorite places.  I have visited there many times since the early 1990s to conduct archaeological and environ...

I don’t have any tattoos, or “skin illustrations” as Ray Bradbury called them, but don’t have a real objection to them on other folks ...