Veteran’s Day By Robert Drynan Korean War Memorial, Washington D.C. A patrol moves silently through the perimeter. The darkness shrouds their movement and the cascading rain muffles their progress. It’s a large patrol, a dozen men, led by a sergeant who has been in the line for eight months. Occasionally lightning in the distance
The Confederate “Invasion” Of Mexico By Robert Drynan When the paralyzing news arrived in the late spring of 1865 that Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox on April 9th, it was quickly followed by Joseph E. Johnston’s surrender in North Carolina of the Army of the Tennessee on April
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Ruminations By Robert Drynan If one reads Middle Eastern and European Medieval history, it is easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying present events with an overlay of the past. But shortly after the events of September 11, 2001 the President of the United States himself lamentably introduced the term Crusade to define
