by Bob | Jan 27, 2020 | Hidden History
First off, if it had worked, many of the big problems in our Constitution that had to be incorporated to allow slavery wouldn’t exist and our present would be much different. But the bigger question is this: would the one for Independence then have even been...
by Bob | Jan 3, 2020 | Hidden History
First interesting piece of trivia: William Tecumseh Sherman was the first president of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, which eventually became LSU. In 1860, with war clouds on the horizon, he wrote a letter to a fellow professor where he...
by Bob | Dec 29, 2019 | Hidden History
I recently noticed the Secretary of State weighing in on his review of a movie. Which is odd, to say the least. I watched The Report and yes, it is fiction. Thus, why is he weighing in on it? Doesn’t he have more important things to do? It’s also odd since...
by Bob | Dec 14, 2019 | Hidden History
And it wasn’t the Caine. I went to the Military Academy, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1802. Although Jefferson tended to be anti-military, he accepted the need for a standing army. And if the nation was going to have one, he felt it should be officered by a...
by Bob | Dec 7, 2019 | Hidden History
Most disasters require 7 things to go wrong; my rule of 7. Whether it be a plane crash or a military disaster. Pearl Harbor was no different. It wasn’t one or two or even six things that went wrong: it was seven. Free today through 9 December is Stuff...
by Bob | Dec 5, 2019 | Hidden History
It began as nothing more than a routine training flight. At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a Naval Air Station in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The planes—collectively known as “Flight 19”—were scheduled to tackle a three-hour...
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