Author Frank Falgout tried to capture on paper the courage of American troops during one of the fiercest battles in Marine Corps history. ...more

December 28, 2007

Flashback to 1945: U.S. Marines, with Navy medical corpsmen alongside them, were engaging Japanese troops on Iwo Jima in one of the fiercest battles in the history of the Marine Corps. A local author, Dr. Frank Falgout, has tried to capture the valor and gallantry of the momentous battle in his book, "The Life of a Navy Corpsman: To Marine Corpsman, To Medical Doctor and Beyond." ...more

December 26, 2007

A recent letter to the editor describing some inexcusable acts of disrespect to the flag at the Highlands County Art Festival motivated me to reread a recent book titled "Flags of our Fathers," which was written about the raising of our flag during the battle for Iwo Jima, by five Marines and a sailor –– an event which is memorialized by the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington D.C. Iwo Jima is a small island in the Pacific, whose war time importance was its small airstrip, which the military desired to assist in our air attacks against Japan. The military desired it, the Marines took it, took it with a loss of 6,825 Marines killed. ...more

December 10, 2007

On 'Desperate Housewives,' John Slattery plays a wily politician. On 'Mad Men,' he's an advertising agency magnate. ...more

September 30, 2007