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A West Point Cadet sends this along with the photo below: I'm a cadet at West Point, and tonight at our game against the Air Force Academy, a big sign emerged, and it was shown to the Corps of Cadets, who cheered wildly, and then shown to the Air Force cadets, who also cheered.

Atrocities against civilians and prisoners by Army soldiers during the Vietnam War were more common than originally disclosed to the public, according to a Los Angeles Times review of recently unsealed government files. Some 9,000 pages of archives - the largest collection of documented war crimes in Vietnam - include sworn witness testimony, investigative files and status reports for top military brass that detail 320 wartime atrocities substantiated by the Army. Still, few soldiers were held accountable for the war crimes, according to the newspaper. The abuse was not restricted to one rogue Army division, but was committed by every...

My husband and I spent a Happy Halloween watching Stolen Honor and Confronting Iraq, making the prospect of a President Kerry much scarier than anything Hammer Horror pictures might have thought up. One curious thing struck us as we watched “Stolen Honor” about the junior senator’s comments to the Senate hearing – they seemed identical with the confessions the North Vietnamese tortured out of the POWs. It seemed to me an odd coincidence that Kerry might have come up with this language himself. And musing on the timeline ( not brought out in the documentary), it seemed to me much...