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The problem with the 24 hour news cycle is that news memory lasts only 24 hours.  Certainly it does not last 70 years – say back to 1962 and Baker v. Carr, which established guidelines regarding the political-question doctrine, or even a few years earlier, to President Eisenhower and how he ran the ship of state.And even if political memory did last longer, most people in this country under the age of 70 and would only know of things that happened years before were born if they were to engage in a serious study of history, which is rare...

Williams single-handedly shot down four Russian fighters, a record-breaking feat never recognized or even known until recentlyRetired U.S. Navy Cpt. E. Royce Williams will never forget November 18, 1952. “Here came four of them from the front side all firing and the others were coming around from the other side…We came in head on,” Williams remembered. “I saw bullets go over me and under me then over me… So the fight went on and on and on.” Williams, who fought in the Korean War, single-handedly shot down four Russian fighters – a record-breaking feat never recognized or even known until...

When Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to ask for a declaration of war in 1917, the U.S. Army was ranked 17th in the world, behind Portugal. On Armistice Day, 19 months later, there were 2 million doughboys in France, where they had helped to break the back of Gen. Ludendorff's theretofore invincible army in its final offensive, and 2 million more in the United States ready to march on Berlin. No other nation could have done that. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, FDR demanded that a disarmed America "build 50,000 planes" -- a seemingly impossible number, but one...

The War For The Soul Of America - Keeping God In Our Pledge By Kevin Fobbs April 26, 2004 Fifty years ago, young children all across America walked into their respective school rooms and with pride bursting in their young chests they recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and there was a new and deeper meaning reflected in the new addition to this pledge. The addition was "One nation under God." What is interesting and insightful about this was its genesis. Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. Another person of the cloth...