I love boating along coastal British Columbia. Occasionally, we spot First Nation burial apparatus, a box or platform, often a canoe, into which the departed is placed and which is then perched upon high stilts or wedged into tree forks. The Choctaws buried their dead by leaving them atop a high scaffold. Eskimos placed their...
Imagine a desperate man making his way on foot through a desert. Exhausted and thirsty beyond endurance he keeps driving himself forward, day by day, in the hope of reaching an oasis. Eventually, he can go no further and drops hopelessly to the hot sand. Rescuers discover his body only a half day’s walk from...
On June 4, 1944, recognizing how easily D-Day could fail, Gen. Eisenhower prepared the following: “Our landings…have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold… The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.” As a...
