Pacific Diary
August 22nd, 2012
By Jan Barry In the summer of 1942, on his 21st birthday, Alfred Theodore “Ted” Graham, Jr., a trumpet player, volunteer fireman, and newspaper reporter from Jacksonville, New York, enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After training as an aerial gunner-radioman, ATG was assigned to Bombing Squadron 15, serving on the aircraft carrier USS Essex, which […]
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Tags: airman, combat, Graham, killed, losses, Navy, Pacific, World War II
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A Soft Spot for Jimmy Carter
April 26th, 2011
By Tom Carter My friend Dan Miller had some fun with Jimmy Carter in the article just below, and with good reason. In recent years, anyway, President Carter has behaved in questionable ways, particularly on issues involving Israel and the Palestinians. When he launches off to places like North Korea, explicitly criticizing sanctions and implicitly […]
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Tags: DPRK, engineer, governor, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Navy, nuclear, Palestine
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