Recent content by Thomas Clarke

The twin Sigs are not unfamiliar to US Marines. They are trained to kill. So were the SS. Sepp Dietrich has long been portrayed as a good soldier doing his duty. These Marines have always known that their flag represented the Final Solution to the extermination of the Afghan enemy. That the...

The appalling loss of life in WWI is appalling to those who did not live and fight then. My paternal grandfather fought as a private and American volunteer at Chateau Thierry and carried the shrapnel from German shells in his legs throughout his life. He could walk only with heavy braces and...