The Japanese high command assumed Wake Island would fall easily. On December 11, a Japanese invasion force steamed confidently toward the island. They expected the Americans to surrender without a fight. That’s not what happened. In December 1941, when America reeled from the Pearl Harbor defeat and one defeat after another across the Pacific, the Battle for Wake Island by this handful of courageous Americans stood as a victory every American could look to for inspiration. “Remember Wake Island”...
Jan 07, 2026•13 min
The most defining moment in World War II. The surrounded and trapped 101st Airborne Division in the Belgian town of Bastogne was about to be slaughtered by a massive German Army during the Battle of the Bulge. But that was something General George Patton would not allow. Virtually overnight he pulled his 3rd Army out of heavy fighting in the south, in France, and raced with his tanks northward 100 miles, slugging it out with the German Army. But could he reach and rescue the men of the American ...
Dec 31, 2025•13 min
The Magi, usually referred to as The Three Wise Men of the Nativity , came to honor the “Newborn King” and to present valuable gifts, gifts for a king (gold, frankincense, and myrrh), and to learn if the prophecies were true. Apparently, they were not disappointed. The Wise Men seemed to understand. They had done their homework! For anyone on their own life-quest seeking Truth, it is hard to find a better historical example than these three special men. It’s foundational to the Christmas message...
Dec 24, 2025•14 min
Dr. Martin Luther King understood that a racist nation could never win the Cold War. The world watched as the Soviet propaganda machine cranked up during the 1950s thru the 1970s, flooding the world with images of American race riots, segregation, and racial injustice. Because of America’s perceived injustices, Communists gained the advantage globally. But with passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act , discrimination laws based upon skin color were eliminated. The day Dr. King longed for— The Dream...
Dec 17, 2025•12 min
William Marshal, known famously as “The Peacemaker,” stepped forward when the Magna Carta —the first of the great freedom documents promoting individual liberty—was about to be discarded. He rescued and enforced this pivotal pact of freedom but would never have had the influence necessary without his incredibly heroic and revered life. For becoming “the world’s greatest knight” was not something anyone expected from a boy of his lowly status. He began life with everyone he knew corrupt and self-...
Dec 10, 2025•13 min
"GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH..." With British attacks on the rise, the Second Virginia Assembly held an emergency session. PATRICK HENRY arrived in Richmond with a single goal. He rose from his seat with no notes in hand. “If we wish to be free, we must fight!” He shouted. “An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us. For the next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we her...
Dec 03, 2025•12 min
A Pilgrim child saw a naked figure watching their village from the trees. Some became afraid. Finally, as the Pilgrims worked near the edge of a clearing, a native man stepped calmly out of the woods and strolled easily towards them wearing nothing but a loincloth. What shocked them most was when he called out to them… in perfect English! The man’s name was SQUANTO. And his miraculous story was so impossible at first no one believed it. As well, Squanto had every right to hate these English Pilg...
Nov 26, 2025•12 min
It’s a true injustice when our illustrious heroes are purposely “cancelled” because of the too-common curse of professional jealousy and power politics. Sadly, it’s even more prevalent today and why a large majority of Americans no longer trust our media. For one of America’s finest cryptographers, a man who singlehandedly saved the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet and delivered the Japanese Navy to American dive bombers at the Battle of Midway, was actually punished for his life-saving accomplishments. ...
Nov 19, 2025•13 min
In April of 1861, the War Between the States broke out. Nine-year-old Johnny Lincoln Clem ran away from home to join the Union Army. But Johnny found the Army not particularly interested in recruiting a boy. The commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he “wasn't enlisting infants just yet,” and sent him home. Johnny, then headed to the 22nd Michigan Regiment nearby. Determined, Johnny tagged along and demonstrated his skill as a drummer boy so professionally the commander allowed him to stay...
Nov 12, 2025•14 min
As an orphan in the 1930s, Francis (Frank) Sherman Currey often stared across the Hudson River at the US Military Academy at West Point standing high on the hills overlooking the river. As he watched the men march, he longed to join with them, to be accepted into this prestigious institution. Still, he knew that because of his poor, disadvantaged life, such a dream could never be achieved. But this was no ordinary boy. Francis (Frank) Currey would not let his poverty and lack of education deter ...
Nov 05, 2025•13 min
Crouched deep underground within the bowels of the massive building, inhaling putrid air without complaint, and in the meager light of a single candle, the Union prisoners worked with a purpose. . Among them was LIEUTENANT JACOB MERRITT, just twenty-three-years-old. . Jacob lay on his belly in the cramped tunnel, chipping at the earthen wall, the opening just twenty inches wide. The tunnel began in the new kitchen. . The prisoners moved the stove and dislodging select bricks allowing access insi...
Oct 29, 2025•13 min
Elizabeth Van Lew was determined Richmond would fall, the sooner the better. . Beneath her basket of groceries were secret Union dispatches written skillfully in invisible ink, folded innocuously like bookmarks between sheets of household shopping accounts. . Two Confederate soldiers strolled past, rifles slung lazily across their shoulders. . The soldiers tipped their hats and moved on, unsuspecting that the well-known local woman known as “Crazy Bet,” was in fact one of President Lincoln’s mos...
Oct 22, 2025•13 min
Morning of September 10, 1813. The British naval squadron under Commander Robert Harriet Barclay, advanced with the confidence and skill of the world’s most powerful navy. Facing them that day was a young American naval officer just *27-years-old*... Oliver Hazard Perry. As the two fleets closed distance near Put-In-Bay, Ohio, Commander Perry’s men braced themselves. Most were farmers and frontiersmen. Many were boys. Almost all had never seen naval combat. Some were freed African American slave...
Oct 15, 2025•13 min
The Enlightenment is often painted as an age when cold science triumphed over devotion to God. This message of today’s Secular-Progressive World is anything but true. Many of the greatest minds of that age were men whose Christian faith shaped their scientific genius. They did not see their work as dismantling God’s place in the cosmos but where the veil of creation was peeled back just enough for these men to glimpse the craftsmanship of the Creator. For heaven’s sake, virtually all scientists ...
Oct 08, 2025•15 min
Helmuth Gunther Hubener grew up in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power. Helmuth was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , sometimes called “Mormons.” Helmuth could see that his beloved Germany was being destroyed systematically from within. He and his friends felt compelled to tell the people of Germany what was really going on. So, with a borrowed typewriter, they produced short pamphlets and passed them out, warning everyone about the bad things the Nazi secret police...
Oct 01, 2025•12 min
We admire Charlie Kirk. He sacrificed himself for his faith. Two thousand years ago, shortly after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, a young disciple by the name of Stephen, also spoke for truth and willingly gave his life for the faith. Both Stephen and Charlie Kirk were young and exceptionally dedicated to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Both spoke truth in the public forum before all who would listen. And in the end, we know, both met violent deaths at the hands of those who passionately hated the...
Sep 24, 2025•13 min
Stephen Collins Foster was the creator and author of what many call the American Soundtrack . We were a young nation at the time, a divided nation, an angry nation. The tunes that escaped his troubled heart offered hope at a time when many thought the United States would fracture and fall. His music captured America’s sorrows, but also its joys and beauties. His work revealed the mighty paradox in the American soul. One that, in the ancient words of Moses, “proclaimed liberty throughout the land...
Sep 17, 2025•14 min
That night in Washington, D.C., towards dawn, Julia Ward Howe could not sleep, so she arose and sat at a nearby writing desk. She related this pivotal event later: “I awoke in the early morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of a poem began to twine themselves into my mind. Having thought out all the stanzas, I said to myself, ‘I must get up and write these verses down, lest I fall asleep again and forget them!’ So, I sprang out of bed and…scrawled the verses almost ...
Sep 10, 2025•12 min
That critical summer of 1787 the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were on the path to failing miserably. For a month the delegates had argued over a forgettable list of ego-driven proposals, accomplishing nothing. Benjamin Franklin spoke addressing the head of the Congress: “I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. …If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probab...
Sep 03, 2025•13 min
The Battle of Yorktown raged. A battle that would decide if the new, young United States of America would survive. Our hero that day, (October 10, 1781), would lead a desperate assault on the British forward position known as Redoubt #10. In bloody hand-to-hand combat, he and his devoted men turned the tide of battle and won one of the greatest victories in American history. His name was Alexander Hamilton. And odds were that he should have died alone and in despair on the disease-infested islan...
Aug 27, 2025•13 min
*MY 3 FAVORITE MOVIES FOR SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH* THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963): What impresses me most about The Great Escape are the many examples of resilience and loyalty shown by these desperate men. The Great Escape is the opportunity for modern, pampered, well-fed American audiences, people like myself, to see what The Greatest Generation accomplished under hopeless conditions. In my mind, you will not find a better true story about fortitude, self-sacrifice, and valor than The Great Escape. LINCO...
Aug 20, 2025•14 min
President Abraham Lincoln, when meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time was reported to have said to her, with a twinkle in his eyes: “So you’re the little lady who started this great war.” And she did, writing the first million-plus selling American novel—UNCLE TOM'S CABIN—about a kind and Christ-like slave named “Tom,” the novel showing graphically the brutalities of slavery during the harsh days of the Fugitive Slave Act, the years running up the American Civil War, a period that nea...
Aug 13, 2025•13 min
Too often today the Alamo is depicted as a bunch of American white-supremacists who oppressed the local population, hoping to “steal Mexican lands.” This is tiring, simplistic, and woefully unfair. History rewritten. Settlers in Texas were promised freedom and independence by the Mexican Government. In the spring of 1836, those who fortified the Alamo against the dictator General Santa Anna were patriots, many born and raised in Texas, native sons. And they understood they might not survive yet ...
Aug 06, 2025•19 min
On the Pennsylvanian shore of the Delaware River, Washington conceived a desperate plan—to cross back over the river into New Jersey and attack a Hessian garrison of 1,200 men. The Hessians were German mercenaries fighting for the British. Throughout that frigid night, Glover and his Marbleheaders rowed Washington’s Army across the ice-choked river, thought to be an impossible feat and attacked the Hessian Garrison, killing 100 and taking 900 Hessian soldiers as prisoners. When the battle ended,...
Jul 30, 2025•13 min
John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, with seemingly impossible stealth, evacuated Washington’s entire army, all 9,000 men, across the East River onto Manhattan Island in nine hours during a single night! How that happened became known as the Miracle of the Fog, for just as the British were preparing to attack, the river and shoreline were blanketed in a thick fog that “came out of nowhere” so that “men could not see ten feet ahead.” By dawn, and then into midmorning, the mysterious fogbank s...
Jul 23, 2025•10 min
John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, with seemingly impossible stealth, evacuated Washington’s entire army, all 9,000 men, across the East River onto Manhattan Island in nine miraculous hours during a SINGLE night! But it would never have happened without one often ignored event which I see as nothing short of divine intervention. For just as the British were preparing to attack, the river and shores were quickly blanketed in a thick fog that “men could not see ten feet ahead.” At least two ...
Jul 16, 2025•12 min
Most Americans do not know that Abraham Lincoln, when elected president, went from “apostate to prophet” all in those critical four years of the Civil War. And helping along his miraculous conversion was a humble, yet highly capable, Army nurse by the name of Rebecca Pomroy. What she was able to accomplish with the Lincoln Family in the White House that dreadful winter of 1862 changed the course of history. This is the often-ignored story of the genuine miracle a long-suffering Christian woman o...
Jul 09, 2025•13 min
We have reached a milestone in America’s beloved past. The 249th and 250th year anniversary of this grand experiment in republicanism, in self-government, but mostly in individual freedom. But, ironically, as of late, we are facing the gravest challenge we have ever faced. And the danger, tragically, is coming from within. Now is the time to look beyond the propaganda and embrace the true history of American greatness, a nation where our Founders “offered their lives, their fortunes, their sacre...
Jul 02, 2025•14 min
The massive British Army under the command of General John Burgoyne, was rushing to attack and destroy Washington’s Continental Army. The Americans needed time to prepare. And young Thaddeus with his unique skills would give the Americans that time. Moving fast with his engineers and rangers, Thaddeus and his team cut trees in the path of the British, laid out traps and ambushes, built dams to flood the streams and rivers making the trails and roads ahead of the British Army impassable. The Brit...
Jun 25, 2025•13 min
On a sweltering July day in 1863, the quiet town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania exploded! This tiny hamlet became the center of the decisive battle for the world’s most pivotal nation locked passionately in its final death throes. The clash between North and South would decide the fate not only of our nation, but by extension, the world. It would be a horribly bloody three-days producing more than 51,000 casualties—mostly young men—husbands, sons, fathers, and brothers. And on that critical day, an...
Jun 18, 2025•12 min
