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Across the muddy plain the thunder of Ottoman drums rolled like an approaching storm.   The mightiest empire on earth did not come to negotiate. They came north to conquer and enslave.   100,000 of the Turkish Sultan’s best troops would attack the Christians at Vaslui in the heart of Moldavia. A decisive moment in Christian history.   Standing in opposition to the Sultan’s army was one man—Stephen...

The Japanese high command assumed Wake Island would fall easily. On December 11, a Japanese invasion force steamed confidently toward the island. They expected the Americans to surrender without a fight.   That’s not what happened.   In December 1941, when America reeled from the Pearl Harbor defeat and one defeat after another across the Pacific, the Battle for Wake Island by this handful of cour...

The most defining moment in World War II.   The surrounded and trapped 101st Airborne Division in the Belgian town of Bastogne was about to be slaughtered by a massive German Army during the Battle of the Bulge.   But that was something General George Patton would not allow.   Virtually overnight he pulled his 3rd Army out of heavy fighting in the south, in France, and raced with his tanks northwa...

The Magi, usually referred to as The Three Wise Men of the Nativity, came to honor the “Newborn King” and to present valuable gifts, gifts for a king (gold, frankincense, and myrrh), and to learn if the prophecies were true. Apparently, they were not disappointed.   The Wise Men seemed to understand. They had done their homework!   For anyone on their own life-quest seeking Truth, it is hard to fi...

Dr. Martin Luther King understood that a racist nation could never win the Cold War.   The world watched as the Soviet propaganda machine cranked up during the 1950s thru the 1970s, flooding the world with images of American race riots, segregation, and racial injustice. Because of America’s perceived injustices, Communists gained the advantage globally.   But with passage of the 1964 Civil Rights...

William Marshal, known famously as “The Peacemaker,” stepped forward when the Magna Carta—the first of the great freedom documents promoting individual liberty—was about to be discarded.   He rescued and enforced this pivotal pact of freedom but would never have had the influence necessary without his incredibly heroic and revered life.   For becoming “the world’s greatest knight” was not somethin...

"GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH..."   With British attacks on the rise, the Second Virginia Assembly held an emergency session. PATRICK HENRY arrived in Richmond with a single goal. He rose from his seat with no notes in hand.   “If we wish to be free, we must fight!” He shouted. “An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us. For the next gale that sweeps from the North will...

A Pilgrim child saw a naked figure watching their village from the trees. Some became afraid.   Finally, as the Pilgrims worked near the edge of a clearing, a native man stepped calmly out of the woods and strolled easily towards them wearing nothing but a loincloth.   What shocked them most was when he called out to them…in perfect English!   The man’s name was SQUANTO. And his miraculous story w...

It’s a true injustice when our illustrious heroes are purposely “cancelled” because of the too-common curse of professional jealousy and power politics.   Sadly, it’s even more prevalent today and why a large majority of Americans no longer trust our media.   For one of America’s finest cryptographers, a man who singlehandedly saved the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet and delivered the Japanese Navy to Am...

In April of 1861, the War Between the States broke out.   Nine-year-old Johnny Lincoln Clem ran away from home to join the Union Army. But Johnny found the Army not particularly interested in recruiting a boy.   The commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he “wasn't enlisting infants just yet,” and sent him home. Johnny, then headed to the 22nd Michigan Regiment nearby.   Determined, Johnny ta...

As an orphan in the 1930s, Francis (Frank) Sherman Currey often stared across the Hudson River at the US Military Academy at West Point standing high on the hills overlooking the river.   As he watched the men march, he longed to join with them, to be accepted into this prestigious institution. Still, he knew that because of his poor, disadvantaged life, such a dream could never be achieved.   But...

Crouched deep underground within the bowels of the massive building, inhaling putrid air without complaint, and in the meager light of a single candle, the Union prisoners worked with a purpose. . Among them was LIEUTENANT JACOB MERRITT, just twenty-three-years-old. . Jacob lay on his belly in the cramped tunnel, chipping at the earthen wall, the opening just twenty inches wide. The tunnel began i...

Elizabeth Van Lew was determined Richmond would fall, the sooner the better. . Beneath her basket of groceries were secret Union dispatches written skillfully in invisible ink, folded innocuously like bookmarks between sheets of household shopping accounts. . Two Confederate soldiers strolled past, rifles slung lazily across their shoulders. . The soldiers tipped their hats and moved on, unsuspect...

Morning of September 10, 1813. The British naval squadron under Commander Robert Harriet Barclay, advanced with the confidence and skill of the world’s most powerful navy.   Facing them that day was a young American naval officer just *27-years-old*... Oliver Hazard Perry.   As the two fleets closed distance near Put-In-Bay, Ohio, Commander Perry’s men braced themselves.   Most were farmers and fr...

The Enlightenment is often painted as an age when cold science triumphed over devotion to God.   This message of today’s Secular-Progressive World is anything but true.   Many of the greatest minds of that age were men whose Christian faith shaped their scientific genius.   They did not see their work as dismantling God’s place in the cosmos but where the veil of creation was peeled back just enou...

Helmuth Gunther Hubener grew up in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power. Helmuth was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes called “Mormons.”   Helmuth could see that his beloved Germany was being destroyed systematically from within. He and his friends felt compelled to tell the people of Germany what was really going on.   So, with a borrowed typewriter, they pro...

We admire Charlie Kirk. He sacrificed himself for his faith.   Two thousand years ago, shortly after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, a young disciple by the name of Stephen, also spoke for truth and willingly gave his life for the faith.   Both Stephen and Charlie Kirk were young and exceptionally dedicated to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Both spoke truth in the public forum before all who would l...

Stephen Collins Foster was the creator and author of what many call the American Soundtrack.   We were a young nation at the time, a divided nation, an angry nation. The tunes that escaped his troubled heart offered hope at a time when many thought the United States would fracture and fall.   His music captured America’s sorrows, but also its joys and beauties. His work revealed the mighty paradox...

That night in Washington, D.C., towards dawn, Julia Ward Howe could not sleep, so she arose and sat at a nearby writing desk.   She related this pivotal event later:   “I awoke in the early morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of a poem began to twine themselves into my mind. Having thought out all the stanzas, I said to myself, ‘I must get up and write these verses...

That critical summer of 1787 the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were on the path to failing miserably.   For a month the delegates had argued over a forgettable list of ego-driven proposals, accomplishing nothing.   Benjamin Franklin spoke addressing the head of the Congress:   “I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that G...

The Battle of Yorktown raged.   A battle that would decide if the new, young United States of America would survive.   Our hero that day, (October 10, 1781), would lead a desperate assault on the British forward position known as Redoubt #10. In bloody hand-to-hand combat, he and his devoted men turned the tide of battle and won one of the greatest victories in American history.   His name was Ale...

*MY 3 FAVORITE MOVIES FOR SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH* THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963): What impresses me most about The Great Escape are the many examples of resilience and loyalty shown by these desperate men. The Great Escape is the opportunity for modern, pampered, well-fed American audiences, people like myself, to see what The Greatest Generation accomplished under hopeless conditions. In my mind, you will...

President Abraham Lincoln, when meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time was reported to have said to her, with a twinkle in his eyes: “So you’re the little lady who started this great war.”   And she did, writing the first million-plus selling American novel—UNCLE TOM'S CABIN—about a kind and Christ-like slave named “Tom,” the novel showing graphically the brutalities of slavery during th...

Too often today the Alamo is depicted as a bunch of American white-supremacists who oppressed the local population, hoping to “steal Mexican lands.”   This is tiring, simplistic, and woefully unfair. History rewritten.   Settlers in Texas were promised freedom and independence by the Mexican Government. In the spring of 1836, those who fortified the Alamo against the dictator General Santa Anna we...

On the Pennsylvanian shore of the Delaware River, Washington conceived a desperate plan—to cross back over the river into New Jersey and attack a Hessian garrison of 1,200 men. The Hessians were German mercenaries fighting for the British.   Throughout that frigid night, Glover and his Marbleheaders rowed Washington’s Army across the ice-choked river, thought to be an impossible feat and attacked...