Post Tagged 'prisoners of war'

May 23, 2008

Memorial Day: John Gillespie Magee Jr. & ‘High Flight’

John Gillespie Magee, Jr. is remembered fondly by American aviators who defended and sacrificed for this nation in World War II to the present day. He is remembered for his touching poem High Flight, which he penned in 1941. Continue Reading...

May 16, 2008

35th Anniversary of ‘The Passing of the Night’

“I want to show that the smartest and the bravest rely on their faith in God and our way of life,” was Robinson Risner’s answer to why he wrote The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese. Continue Reading...