Will Dabbs

Bad things happen in war, and atrocities have been part of institutionalized killing ever since men lived in caves.

Estimated reading time: 0 minutes On 6 August 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb from the B29 Superfortress Enola Gay on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This weapon, an enriched uranium gun-type design designated “Little Boy,” exploded 1,500 feet above the ground and had a nominal yield of around 15 kilotons. That [...]

There is a fellowship intrinsic to military service that is tough to describe to those who have not lived it. For starters, we were all so terribly young.

Warlords, drug kingpins, or just garden-variety criminals can make life a living hell for good folks who just want to go about their business.

I was eighteen years old. It would be another three years before society would trust me to drink a beer or buy a handgun, but Uncle Sam had taught me how to kill a man efficiently and effectively with a bayonet.

Lord of War was a simply magnificent movie. Second only to Raising Arizona, it was my favorite Nicolas Cage film ever. Cage’s character, a Ukrainian arms dealer named Yuri Orlov, was loosely based on Viktor Bout.

Though the nuances are lost on a modern generation of lamentably binary Americans, imbedded within the school’s history we see the possibility that very good people might support some very bad causes.

Thirty people have successfully committed suicide off of the building despite some fairly extensive impediments specifically designed to dissuade such sordid stuff.

George Reeves played one of the most iconic roles in the history of television, yet he was still never satisfied. Methinks there’s a message in there someplace, something deep and timeless, perhaps.