At 1:47 p.m. on April 14th, 1944, Private Jack Hatchet Riley, crouched in a Shell Crater on Bugenville Island, gripping a javelin he’d…
On May 18th, 2019, five friends left Paradisa restaurant at 11:47 p.m. Laughing, drunk on champagne. Sophia calling for an Uber while…
The Second World War, raging from 1939 to 1945, was a conflict that stretched across continents, pitting nations against each other in a…
In March 2011, the Aurora Dream departed Port Canaveral with 350 passengers and crew aboard for a 5-day Caribbean cruise. The ship…
I walked into the courthouse in my SEAL uniform, my dad chuckled, my mom shook her head, but the judge… …
Stalag 9C Bad Sulsa, Germany, December 1944. The guard tower search light swept across the frozen compound, catching a group of American…
March 3rd, 1943. The Bismar Sea lies still under a gray dawn, the kind of morning sailors call lucky. Eight Japanese transports and…
At 5:47 a.m. on June 6th, 1944’s Private Daniel Hayes crouched in a German trench on Omaha Beach with a single M1911…
Pennsylvania, 1943. The freight car doors slid open with a metallic shriek, and 200 German prisoners squinted against light so bright it…