Mitchell's Ramblings

When President Ford's daughter Susan graduated from high school, her father was the Commencement Speaker. He began, "On the way ove...

A few years ago, while waiting for a doctor's appointment, I happened to chat with a older gentleman who was a retired soldier. When he ...

The Awa Maru was an 11,000-ton troop transport with a crew of 148 that the Japanese converted into a hospital ship. In January 1945, Japan a...

In December, 1942, Brigadier General Ira Eaker took command of the US Eighth Army Air Force in England. To mark that occasion, he gave a spe...

When Farrah arrived at the Pearly Gates, St. Peter said, "Farrah, you lived a charmed life, but that last year was awfully rough...so, ...

When a German submarine torpedoed and sank the Ocean liner Lusitania on May 7, 1915, over a hundred Americans were among the 1,500 people wh...

In over a millennia of English kings, only one ever earned the nickname “the Great:” Alfred. He was a great warrior who repelled a Danish in...