[June 26, 2014] Looking over the Berlin wall in 1975 was something that my friends and I in VII U.S. Army Corps will never forget. After traveling to Berlin at night by train from Stuttgart in West Germany, we were told to memorize the area we were assigned to study. What none of us knew, perhaps due to… Read More »
[June 25, 2014] Communist North Korean forces attacked across the border between North and South on this date, starting a hot war that developed into a bloody affair. This was an era of Communist expansionism across the globe. The Korean War: June 25, 1950 … the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and their allies have our respect for… Read More »
[June 19, 2014] On this date in 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Orders No. 3 to the people of Galveston, Texas. Such began an annual celebration from that day forward; this date commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. The Juneteenth celebration memorializes what is considered the most important legal action in the… Read More »
[June 14, 2014] Flag Day 2014. If a person ever had a split second to do something great, it would be a moment we certainly would never forget. That was the case in 1976 during a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Rick Monday, the Cubs’ center fielder, rescued the American flag seconds… Read More »
[June 13, 2014] Whenever I see an exceptional example of leadership, I’m willing to point it out. Yesterday I was contacted by a retired, military flag officer who asked me to look at Vet Voice Foundation (VVF). This is a legitimate organization doing good things for our military veterans. The Vet Voice Foundation is both non-profit and non-partisan. Their… Read More »
[June 06, 2014] Codenamed Operation Overlord, the invasion of German-occupied France had been long in coming. Success was an outgrowth of the many leadership lessons from the failures at Dunkirk and other battlefields. Those lessons were hard earned and cost the lives of tens of thousands of military and civilians. Yet, what did the military and civilian senior… Read More »
[June 06, 2014] Operation Overlord was the codename used for the invasion1 of German-occupied France. Today’s anniversary of those landings allows us to look back at a time that was very different when compared to our world today. However, we can see similarities across history that evil is not always recognized early for what it will do if… Read More »
[June 06, 2014] Seventy years ago today, over 160,000 Allied soldiers landed on a 50-mile stretch of beach at Normandy, France. Assembled was also the largest naval task force ever created with 7,000 vessels and in addition there were 24,000 paratroopers dropped inland. The invasion was a controversial plan fraught with great risk and peril if it should… Read More »
[June 04, 2014] From time to time we recognize certain important events to pay our respects to those who were there and to acknowledge the importance of those events. It is not the date of import, but that it gives us a reminder of those events and the significant impact on our lives. The knowledge of history allows… Read More »
[June 03, 2014] This year in 2014, we will be honoring the heroic sacrifices made by American and Allied troops in the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the “war to end all wars.” In this blog, I plan to show how leadership was the deciding factor in the First World War. We at theLeaderMaker.com are privileged to… Read More »