Tomorrow, Ernest “Smokey” Smith will lie in state (CBC) in the foyer House of Commons of Canada in Ottawa. He was the last remaining recipient of the Victoria Cross in Canada. He earned it for his heroic and brave acts while fighting in Italy in 1944. He died on Sunday at the age of 91. …
Category Archives: War and Peace
Peter Jennings signs off.
I don’t have much to say about the death of Peter Jennings, but plenty of other people and news sources do. The best and perhaps most in depth one I’ve seen so far has been by John Simpson of the BBC. Peter did what he could to halt the downward spiral of television news in …
How Bin Laden Got Away
According to the CIA Officer who lead the operation at Tora Bora in 2001. Or at least he’d like us to know.. but the US Administration is, unsurprisingly, dragging their feet on approving his manuscript for release. So now the CIA vet, who was decorated by the CIA for helping prevent an assassination attempt by …