While US media censorship has gained recent attention as a result of Janet Jackson’s exposure on live television, and the careful attention paid to what information is aired in terms of the Iraq war, censorship is no new issue. Censorship laws within the media have existed for decades, gaining specificity and stringency as an apparent ...
A Sunken Mystery In 2000, diver Dan Crowell piloted his dive boat, the Seeker, out of Brielle, New Jersey on an expedition. He had heard from local fishermen that there was possibly an unidentified Liberty shipwreck about 75 miles offshore. Some 260 feet down, they discovered that their shipwreck wasn’t a Liberty ship at all. ...
Band of Brothers is part history textbook and part long journalistic feature article. The style of writing varies, seemingly always within a single chapter, from the overall historical picture of the Allied invasion of Western Europe in 1944 to detailed description of the events concerning specifically the soldiers of the Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry ...
Because of my four World War II books, I am often invited to address veterans and civic groups and for the last twenty-five years have done several such appearances annually. Naturally I have put together several lists of topics from the more than a thousand interesting, little-known, odd, and unusual items which appear in my ...
In the autumn of 2001, just before terrorists attacked the United States on September 11th, a ten-part television mini-series, entitled Band of Brothers, began on the Home Box Office (HBO) cable network. That mini-series told with exquisite eloquence the story of one of the most famous U.S. Army units to fight during World War II. ...
When you hear the word “propaganda,” you might automatically think of lies, told to an audience to get them to believe something that isn’t true. And, that’s one way that propaganda is used. But propaganda isn’t always about lying. It is, however, about swaying your opinion. If we look back at history, we can see ...
