Mitchell's Ramblings

The month I turned 56, I had to accept the fact that I might never hear an Englishman brag about the size of Wembley stadium. I’d been h...

One aspect of my Apserger’s is that when I was younger I sometimes had difficulty grasping that two very different people could have the...

When I was in 4th grade back in the 1964-65 school year, my teacher was a very fine lady named Mrs Abel. Mrs. Abel taught not only yours t...

I’ve always admired the following quote from General George S Patton: “There are people who disagree with me… They are wrong.”

In almost all great military powers, there is a rank above general called Field Marshall. The Soviets had Marshall Zhukov, the French had ...

Ward Hill Lamon became a lawyer as a young man and got to be good friends with a rising Illinois politician almost twenty years his seni...

Anyone who has seen either the African Queen or Out of Africa knows that during WWI, the fighting extended to The Dark Continent, where Br...