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Here is a YouTube Video we just put up telling some personal war stories. Thought you veterans and vet lovers would like it.. Hope you enjoy it and please like, comment, subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6ht8-0DfI&feature=youtu.be

Very simple: “How did this shooter get to spend over 1 hour shooting at ducks in a pond while nobody was prepared to take him down!” That is the real question! The Hotels were more scared of lawsuits than having their top paying “rollers” he hustled out of their cocaine beds while people died. So much very wrong here. So disgraced to see the police patting their backs, along with politicians and firemen letting their guard down on a Sunday night! 79 minutes of terror and the only reason I’m writing here is because I thought the SWAT Team made...

At the Vineland (N.J.) Veterans Memorial Home, assistant business manager William H. Palmer Jr. has a special bond with the 175 or so World War II veterans who live there. His father, Ensign William H. Palmer, was part of a secret mission during the D-Day invasion that delivered messages from the command ship Ancon to the shore during days of radio silence. … Just like Butch Maisel, a Baltimore history teacher whose father landed on D-Day, Palmer is determined to carry forth the legacy. “I went to find out what my father did on D-Day,” he said, and the research...

Every year on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, I share "My Father's War Stories From World War II" as my small way to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

On the occasion of Veterans Day 2009, I pay honor to those who’ve served and/or paid the ultimate price in service to their country by publishing a series of war stories that holds a special value in my heart, because they were written by my father, Ted.

March 16, 2007 Last summer we went to Vietnam to shoot several "War Stories" episodes for FOX News Channel. As one might expect in a communist country where they take red tape very seriously, my producers spent weeks before our trip filling out forms, questionnaires and documents required by numerous government bureaucracies. In the process it became evident that not all the folks in Hanoi were on the same sheet of music -- but after several weeks of negotiation we were able to accomplish all that we set out to do and more, thanks to their cooperation. As it turns...

War Stories Investigates: The Jihad Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 8 p.m./11 p.m. ET Hosted by Oliver North The word is everywhere, but what does it mean? Jihad — holy war or struggle — now threatens innocent people of every faith. Al Qaeda may now be at the top of the terror ladder, but the roots of this global war are deep in history. Tune in this weekend as Oliver North explores what every person should know about jihad. In proven "War Stories" tradition, this episode brings historical context to today's events. As you will see, the jihad being...

"Why He Fights" Saturday, September 30 - 8pm / 1am ET FOX News Channel (Bret Baier) gained exclusive access to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. War Stories with Oliver North: From the Ballpark to the BattlefieldSunday, October 1 - 8pm / 11pm ET Find out how America’s national pastime helped achieve victory in World War II.

Company of Heroes10:00pm The Fight for Fallujah — They were sent into a hellish city to hunt down terrorists house-to-house. Hear their incredible story, from the graphic battle footage to the interviews with the families they left behind. (cc)

The Fall 2005 Jack Maddox Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by College of the Southwest, will present Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, on Thursday, November 10. North will take the stage at Tydings Auditorium on the Hobbs High School campus at 7:30 p.m. North is a combat decorated Marine, a #1 best-selling author, the founder of a small business, an inventor with three U.S. patents, a syndicated columnist, and host of "War Stories" on Fox News Channel; yet he claims his most important accomplishment as being "the husband of one and the father of four." North was born in San Antonio, Texas,...

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST - Warriors! Buzz is rejoined by Ollie North as they discuss the ongoing war on terror, Ollie's latest bestseller 'War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific,' and the most important element in our national defense -- the American soldier. Also, Buzz continues his series speaking with troops on the ground in Iraq as LT COL Duke Deluca, US Army, calls in from...

Townhall.com and the Sacramento-area Townhall Meetup group recommends you tune into this Sunday's episode of "War Stories with Oliver North," which will be on the "Tin Can Sailors" of World War II. Click for program info. Click VetsCor for discussion.

A good friend of mine once pointed out to me that the first thing liberals do, after someone commits a crime with a gun, is try to disarm everyone who didn't do it. I found his words to be both insightful and troubling, and it's the same sort of pretzel logic to which he referred that has become evident over the past few years in the actions of the many left-wingers seeking to defame Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Apparently, leftists believe that Mr. Rumsfeld is somehow responsible for our military's lack of optimum preparedness, which is sort of like blaming...

Dedicated to the true warriors of B Company, 1/69th Armor, who let me call 2nd Platoon home for 4 months during my tour in Vietnam. “We were riding into it. I could just make out the misty silhouettes of ships at sea. Jets flew overhead. All were part of the combined operation. I was perched outside the turret. Our tank commander and 2nd Platoon leader, LT Rick Hasty, wanted me to learn how to drive so I’d make rank more quickly, but there hadn’t been time to teach me. An experienced drive, Chuck Meerholz, had just joined the platoon, so...

Below is my letter to Oliver North. While watching Stolen Honor today, it came to me that it has been edited to fit perfectly into a one-hour time slot and that Ollie's show, War Stories, is the perfect place for it to be shown. I have no idea how realistic this concept is, but being the eternal optomist I really want to try. Anyone wishing to join in can also write to Col. North at: warstories@foxnews.com Dear Lieutenant Colonel North, I recently purchased the DVD of the documentary film, Stolen Honor. It would be a gross understatement to say that...

Sixty years ago next week — on May 15, 1944 — the front page of the New York Times carried a brief dispatch from the front in Europe. It told the story of an American B-17, on a bombing run over Laon, France, that was struck by a bomb accidentally released by another American plane flying in formation above it. The bomb wedged in the tail of the Flying Fortress, killing the tail-gunner, but didn't explode. "Although the plane was almost unmanageable," the dispatch read, "the crew stayed with the ship." Terrified the bomb would detonate during what promised to...

Senator John Kerry had asked the Defense Department to investigate a series of allegations made by the Toledo Blade about a U.S. Army platoon in Vietnam allegedly killing unarmed civilians back in 1967. The Blade series has now won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Of course, getting such a prize doesn't make a story true. Janet Cooke of the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for a phony story about a child heroin addict. The prize was returned. The New York Times won a Pulitzer for Walter Duranty's stories about Stalin's Soviet Union. Duranty was later exposed as...

Since the Vietnam War is so much in the news these days, I thought it might be good to start a thread in which Vietnam Vets or, as in my case, children of Vietnam Vets can swap war stories about their or their parent's experiences in Vietnam. I guess I'll go first. My father was a Sgt. in the Air Force during Vietnam. In April of 1969, he was flying along with 220 other troops from the Air Force, Army and Marines over to Vietnam on a super DC-8 or a "stretch 8" belonging to Seaboard World chartered by the...

NBC's War Stories: Did it bother anyone else but me? I taped this TV show Wednesday night and did not view it until late this evening. It is about the print & cable news war correspondents of today. And in many ways it hit home big-time! NBC Tag: Wednesday, January 29th 8/7pm War Stories Civil war has broken out in Uzbekistan and journalists from around the world have gathered to cover this latest global hot spot. Jeff Goldblum stars as a veteran newspaper reporter forced to guide his new photographer through the madness. The lead print guy, Goldblum, is the...