http://warstories.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by War Stories en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:48:52 GMT 2010-01-07T02:48:52Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977923948&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace A cynical view from this week's Economist   Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:48:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977923948&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-11-30T17:48:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977892686&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Armistice Day – Remembering those who died in World War I There are probably a very few veterans of WWI left alive now, and the memories of it have faded. It is appropriate to focus on . . . Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:38:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977892686&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2009-11-09T18:38:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977838559&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Barack Obama, March 27, 2009 "Good morning. Today, I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. "This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that . . . Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:05:57 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977838559&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-10-05T01:05:57Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977836160&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Military mercenaries are nothing new. Hired guards have probably been used to protect business interests as far back as the spice caravans from the Orient. But I wonder if they have ever been used to . . . Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:15:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977836160&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2009-10-02T20:15:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977831134&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace "The insurgency in Afghanistan didn't just happen overnight, and we won't defeat it overnight. This will not be quick, nor easy. But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is . . . Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:35:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977831134&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-09-29T21:35:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977824098&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The most recent issue of Newsweek has a very interesting article about the future of Drones in the US arsenal titled The Attack of The Drones Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:59:38 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977824098&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-09-24T00:59:38Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977818123&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Drone attacks against suspected Taliban and Al Qaida targets were initiated by the Bush Administration and have continued, or expanded, under President Obama. The attraction of these aircraft is obvious . . . Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:39:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977818123&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-09-18T22:39:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977763680&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace In the early morning of August 21, 1863 four hundred horsemen rode into the undefended town of Lawrence, Kansas.  By the time they left, four hours later, over 150 men and boys had been murdered, . . . Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:24:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977763680&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-08-06T16:24:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977763642&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace An Ordinary Man , by Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, tells the story of the Rwandan genocide.  It also tells how Mr. Rusesabagina risked his own life and those of . . . Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:46:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977763642&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-08-05T15:46:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977718456&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace .   It is with great sadness that I announce to all my friends and faithful readers here on Gather that it's time for me to go.  I'm making a clean break, so you won't be finding any more . . . Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:30:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977718456&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Edward Nudelman 2009-06-22T18:30:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977686017&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Saturday, (5/16) Brad and I journeyed to Jefferson City, Missouri for a reenactment of Sterling Price’s 1864 assault on that city. The beginning of the day was . . . Tue, 19 May 2009 22:42:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977686017&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-05-19T22:42:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977685632&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Three ladies were talking. One says she got stung by a honey bee and her whole hand swelled up. 2nd lady says she got stung by a bumble bee and her whole arm swole up. 3rd says thats nothing, . . . Mon, 18 May 2009 16:28:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977685632&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Army Man . 2009-05-18T16:28:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977678906&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Saturday, I visited the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, which sits on the banks of the Mississippi River, South of St. Louis. The first burial here is believed to have been in 1827. . . . Mon, 11 May 2009 00:26:48 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977678906&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-05-11T00:26:48Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977665947&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace I'll do the annoyances first. Right now what annoys me the most is listening to Dick Cheney and his friends trying to justify torturing people. Next, is having to listen to the media on every news . . . Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:58:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977665947&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2009-04-25T21:58:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977659436&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Last night, Sue and I attended the opening night performance of Mother Courage at Washington University. I was not sure how Sue would react, since Brecht was not exactly your conventional playwright, . . . Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:21:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977659436&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-04-18T13:21:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977654172&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Obama four, Pirates nothing Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:01:48 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977654172&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-04-13T01:01:48Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977423625&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Civil War's First Blood Missouri, 1854-1861 By James Denny & John Bradbury Most Missourians have no clue how devastating the Civil War was to their state. Only Virginia and . . . Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:18:20 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977423625&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2008-08-22T00:18:20Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977637064&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace There unmistakeable similarities between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the sharp downturn in the economy that we are experiencing today. I would like to compare the two events, and the remedies . . . Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:01:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977637064&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2009-03-25T19:01:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977605579&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace "Bac si!" bac si! You come fron' gay' now! Boo coo sick!" He awakened instantly when the yelling at the door to his hooch began. He had been in South Viet Nam for 11 days now. . . . Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:20:46 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977605579&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Donald H. 2009-02-24T20:20:46Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977601966&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace For some reason I woke up this morning with Phil Ochs' Draft Dodger Rag going through my head.  I know this dates me.  It would be meaningless to anyone who came of age after 1973. . . . Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:22:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977601966&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2009-02-21T14:22:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977583479&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace      I ran across this letter when I was going through a box of my mother's mementos yesterday. It is a letter I wrote home when I was finishing up my training at NATTC in . . . Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:09:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977583479&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2009-02-03T18:09:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567665&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Today on HBO I watched a movie that will haunt me forever. - It is called "In the Valley of Elah", and stars Tommy Lee Jones. The title comes from the Bible. At one point in the story Jones, . . . Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:13:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567665&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2009-01-19T05:13:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977559318&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace There was a smoky odor on the wind as the breeze blew in from the west. We were easing along a footpath just below the crest of a ridge looking for signs of recent passage by humans. The ridge had just . . . Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:53:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977559318&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Donald H. 2009-01-10T19:53:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977529432&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Now that the new Iraqi government has set a date for American troops to withdraw from their cities by June 2009, and from their country by 2011, American and UN forces will turn their attention back to . . . Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:26:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977529432&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2008-12-08T17:26:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977528650&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Jennison’s Jayhawkers: A Civil War Calvary Regiment and Its Commander Nowhere was the American Civil War more brutal than along the Missouri Kansas border. Citizens of these two states had been . . . Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:14:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977528650&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace The Militant Moderate 2008-12-07T18:14:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977528575&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace I am trying to write an article or two about the war in Afghanistan, and in the last two days I have accumulated 10 pages of notes. Last night I went to bed determined to stop researching and start writing. . . . Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:11:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977528575&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2008-12-07T16:11:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977503850&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace  How I wish I had the stamina and wherewithall today to truck on down town for the Veteran's Day festivities! San Diego has been a military city for about 100 years or more, and both active duty . . . Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:41:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977503850&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2008-11-11T16:41:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977499565&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Late last night I watched a program called "Torturing Democracy". They said some of the information in it had not been revealed before. It concerns how Vice President Cheney engineered the use . . . Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:23:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977499565&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2008-11-06T16:23:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977489931&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday lucky me-ee Happy birthday tooo meee!   I was born in a hospital in Norwalk Conn. 86 years ago today. When I was 4 years . . . Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:59:33 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977489931&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2008-10-27T14:59:33Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977457818&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace I strongly urge you to read the recent Gather article by Eban Brooks, "Good God What Have We Done". The article concerns over a thousand POWs left behind in Vietnam and Laos after President . . . Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:28:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977457818&grpId=3659174697239896&nav=Groupspace Ruth MacGill 2008-09-24T14:28:53Z