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Major General Harold Greene, who was murdered by a jihadist in Afghanistan Tuesday, is the highest-ranking American officer since the Vietnam War, 44 years ago, to be killed in combat. Or at least one hopes that he will be accorded the full honors of a soldier killed in combat. With the Obama administration and its compliant Pentagon brass, you can never be sure. The two-star general was killed, and 15 fellow allied soldiers wounded, not on the battlefield but in the seemingly secure confines of a military base — in this instance, a training school outside Kabul. The shooting spree...

Greensboro, NC-- Visitors to the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, now have a new place to find history. The federal park which is a Revolutionary War battle site, is opening a library. The library officially opens Wednesday, March 23 and will concentrate on the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. It will be located at 2331 New Garden Road in Greensboro, N.C. The library, of course, is named after Greensboro's namesake General Nathanael Greene. When it opens, it will be one of only two Revolutionary War research libraries in the country with the Southern Campaign concentration. The other is in...

WOONSOCKET -- Pssst. Don’t tell anyone, but historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist David McCullough’s next book may focus on the life and times of American Revolutionary War general and Rhode Island native son Nathanael Greene. That little tidbit of insider information was provided by Norman Desmarais, professor and acquisitions librarian at Providence College, who presented his "Redcoats and Rebels" program at the Museum of Work and Culture Sunday. Desmarais recently met McCullough, who apparently became interested in Greene’s story while researching his most recent best seller, "1776." Greene, second only to George Washington among military leaders in the Revolutionary War,...