Paul Warrick

In the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, the battleship was the king of the world’s navies. The might and power of a nation was on display as its mighty ships sailed the seas. Even while not firing a shot they made a statement about the prestige of

“When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend”. Near the end of the classic western movie, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”, the newspaper editor finds out that it was really John Wayne not Jimmy Stewart who killed the bad guy, Liberty Valance, played by Lee Marvin. Stewart was a

1968 was a turbulent year. Riots and protests were daily events covered in the media with a continuous 24-hour a day news cycle. Veterans were coming home bitter about the U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War and protesting along with the hippies and draft-dodgers. Even Walter Kronkite,

“I….(name)…., do hereby swear, before the Great and Living God, that during my engagement, and while I am an employee of Russell, Majors and Waddell, I will, under no circumstances, use profane language, that I will drink no intoxicating liquors, that I will not quarrel or fight with any

Many military officers are assigned “additional duties”. When I arrived to fill my new full-time job in research and development at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1979, I was given the additional duty of “top secret control officer”. The only real responsibility of the job was to perform a periodic

On 22 June, 1941 Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union, their previous ally. German forces moved rapidly into Russia with their “blitzkrieg”. Soviet forces were initially overwhelmed. Although the United States had not yet entered WWII, President Roosevelt was sending vast amounts of supplies to those countries