World War II | Stronger At The Broken Places
“We must hate…”
by David Chrisinger on December 21, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Stories • 0 Comments
We must hate, he said. We must lust for battle. Our object in life, he told the new recruits, must be to kill. We must scheme and plan night and day to kill. Make no mistake, there is nothing else. Welcome to the United States Army. “There need be no pangs of conscience,” Lt. Gen. Lesley, who was in charge…
The Reality of War’s Destructiveness
by David Chrisinger on December 16, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Stories • 0 Comments
One day after the battle had ended and the smoke had cleared, he came upon an American cemetery. Hundreds of men were interred there in plain temporary graves, marked with simple wooden crosses on which were tacked one of their dog tags and a bronze plate with their names, service numbers, ranks, units, and date of death. Officers and enlisted…
It’s because a lot of other men died
by David Chrisinger on November 25, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Stories • 0 Comments
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Olin M. Gray, Private, U.S. Marine Corps (Reserve), for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with Company Q, Fourth Marine Raider Battalion, in the early part of the engagement at Bairoko Harbor, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, on 20…
“One War is Enough” –Edgar L. Jones, 1946
by David Chrisinger on November 24, 2014 in Challenges, Historical Accounts • 0 Comments
Editor’s Note: This article was written by Edgar L. Jones and was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1946. During his forty months of war duty, Edgar L. Jones served for over a year with the British Eighth Army in North Africa. He also served as a merchant seaman, an Army historian, and for seven months as The Atlantic correspondent in the Far…
Marcus Brotherton on His New Book, “Feast for Thieves”
by David Chrisinger on September 3, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Triumphs • 0 Comments
An elite paratrooper survives the Second World War. Used to solving problems with a rifle or his fists, he’s known as the most incorrigible soldier in his company. What sort of minister might such a man make? That’s the question Marcus Brotherton sets out to answer in his new book, Feast for Thieves. To answer it, Brotherton, who has written several…
by David Chrisinger on August 26, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Triumphs • 12 Comments
“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.” –George Macaulay Trevelyan, “Walking,” 1913 In…
by David Chrisinger on August 25, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Triumphs • 0 Comments
“When the going gets tough,” according to one author of the What the Soldier Thinks series, “soldiers in battle call on prayer, thoughts of home and their buddies, and hatred for the enemy to help them get through.” What the Soldier Thinks was a monthly digest of War Department Studies on the attitudes of American troops during the Second World War. It was distributed…
World War II | Stronger At The Broken Places
“We must hate…”
by David Chrisinger on December 21, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Stories • 0 Comments
We must hate, he said. We must lust for battle. Our object in life, he told the new recruits, must be to kill. We must scheme and plan night and day to kill. Make no mistake, there is nothing else. Welcome to the United States Army. “There need be no pangs of conscience,” Lt. Gen. Lesley, who was in charge…
The Reality of War’s Destructiveness
by David Chrisinger on December 16, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Stories • 0 Comments
One day after the battle had ended and the smoke had cleared, he came upon an American cemetery. Hundreds of men were interred there in plain temporary graves, marked with simple wooden crosses on which were tacked one of their dog tags and a bronze plate with their names, service numbers, ranks, units, and date of death. Officers and enlisted…
It’s because a lot of other men died
by David Chrisinger on November 25, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Stories • 0 Comments
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Olin M. Gray, Private, U.S. Marine Corps (Reserve), for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with Company Q, Fourth Marine Raider Battalion, in the early part of the engagement at Bairoko Harbor, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, on 20…
“One War is Enough” –Edgar L. Jones, 1946
by David Chrisinger on November 24, 2014 in Challenges, Historical Accounts • 0 Comments
Editor’s Note: This article was written by Edgar L. Jones and was original
ly published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1946. During his forty months of war duty, Edgar L. Jones served for over a year with the British Eighth Army in North Africa. He also served as a merchant seaman, an Army historian, and for seven months as The Atlantic correspondent in the Far…
Marcus Brotherton on His New Book, “Feast for Thieves”
by David Chrisinger on September 3, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Triumphs • 0 Comments
An elite paratrooper survives the Second World War. Used to solving problems with a rifle or his fists, he’s known as the most incorrigible soldier in his company. What sort of minister might such a man make? That’s the question Marcus Brotherton sets out to answer in his new book, Feast for Thieves. To answer it, Brotherton, who has written several…
by David Chrisinger on August 26, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Triumphs • 12 Comments
“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.” –George Macaulay Trevelyan, “Walking,” 1913 In…
by David Chrisinger on August 25, 2014 in Historical Accounts, Triumphs • 0 Comments
“When the going gets tough,” according to one author of the What the Soldier Thinks series, “soldiers in battle call on prayer, thoughts of home and their buddies, and hatred for the enemy to help them get through.” What the Soldier Thinks was a monthly digest of War Department Studies on the attitudes of American troops during the Second World War. It was distributed…