Thomas Wictor

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Achieving the impossible

“With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer.” —Inscription on the National Memorial to the “Seabees” The U.S. Naval Construction Battalions Today someone asked me to comment on the article “The Day Israel Died,” by Kurt Schlichter. An excerpt. With the Mossad’s assessment in hand…

 

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A funny thing happened…

When I say a funny thing happened, I don’t mean funny like this. I mean, really unusual. A few days ago, I got an e-mail asking about my Great-uncle Colonel Curtis Yarnell Kimball, O.B.E., U.S. Army (ret.) Here he is being awarded a medal by Field Marshal Bernhard Montgomery in Munich, April of 1945. At…

 

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