For the third consecutive morning, Taylor Swift woke up feeling sick to her stomach and rushing to the bathroom. She had been living…
The silence that followed Scott Swift’s announcement was deafening. 14-year-old Taylor stared at her father across the kitchen table of their beautiful Wyoming…
September 18th, 1944. General Hassan Montufil stood in his command post near the German border, studying a map that for the first time…
At 11:15 on the morning of April 9th, 1944, Lieutenant Commander George Castleman stood on the bridge of the USS Pillsbury and stared…
The doctor peels back the boy’s lips and sees something that makes him step back. The gums are black and swollen, bleeding at…
They opened the jar and stared at it like it was a science experiment gone wrong. Brown paste. Americans ate this on purpose…
February 14th, 1945. 3 miles east of Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The temperature hovers just below freezing. A dairy farmer named Harold Jensen stands…
If you looked at a color photograph of Tokyo in 1945, you would swear it was in black and white. The firebombings had…
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Everything was fine. The patrol moved through the jungle with the confidence of men who owned this territory. Seven soldiers of the Vietkong…