Resting on a hill above the town of Distomo, Greece, is a massive memorial and ossuary. It contains the names and skulls of victims from a 1944 German massacre in this town where 218 men, women, ...
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There is no question that Patton (1970) is my favorite movie. Since I was a kid, I have seen it more times than I can count and this project took much longer than necessary, as I kept watching l...
https://scottmanning.com/content/12-war-lessons-from-the-movie-patton-1970/
“FDR was a piece of shit. If you disagree, you don’t know history.” That is what someone said to me during a stream of articles last month about President Roosevelt’s attitude and policy ...
https://scottmanning.com/content/when-history-becomes-like-professional-wrestling/
While in Luxembourg, a Belgian coworker harassed me, “You’re an American and you’ve never visited Bastogne?” It was true. I was visiting the Low Countries for the third time and I had zer...
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Visiting both the Luxembourg American Cemetery and German War Cemetery consecutively provided an interesting perspective on how two peoples on opposing sides have chosen to remember their war dea...
https://scottmanning.com/content/a-tale-of-two-luxembourg-cemeteries/
After visiting the Luxembourg American Cemetery, I convinced my German coworker that we should visit the Germany War Cemetery as well. It just over a mile away. The following description, ...
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When I learned that Patton was buried 10 minutes from my hotel in Luxembourg, I had to make the pilgrimage. The Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial is a bit of touristy place, but it is wel...
https://scottmanning.com/content/luxembourgamericancemeteryand-memorial/
The Battle of the Bulge Monument at the Valley Forge Military Academy and College prominently displays a quote from Winston Churchill (1874-1965), "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battl...
https://scottmanning.com/content/churchills-battle-of-the-bulge/
For over a year now, I passed a sign for the Battle of the Bulge Monument on my way to work. I have yet to find anyone at work who visited it, but ironically, I never visited either. This past Fr...
https://scottmanning.com/content/bulge-monument-valley-forge/
Throughout the 1930's, Winston Churchill spoke out concerning German rearmament, Britain's lack of comparable military strength, and Adolf Hitler. Churchill spent most of the decade a mere Member...
https://scottmanning.com/content/churchills-earliest-warning-about-hitler/