Episode 150: A Tale of Two Soldiers, Part II

 

When US Army Brigadier General Jacob Smith issued an order that authorized the genocide of Filipinos during the Philippine Insurrection, only one of his subordinates stepped in and tried to stop it - Marine Corps Major Littleton "Tony" Waller, but a massacre of a US Infantry Company at the hands of Moro rebels made stopping the deaths of innocent women and children much more difficult.

Episode 149: A Tale of Two Soldiers, Part I

 

There is only one person buried at Arlington that I believe should be disinterred and moved elsewhere, an Army Brigadier General named Jacob Hurd Smith who should have been drummed out of the military decades before he became a general, but since he wasn't, he was allowed an opportunity to commit genocide in The Philippines. Only one of his subordinates, a Marine named Littleton "Tony" Waller actively tried to stop him.

Episode 148: The Life and Times of Astronaut Jim Lovell

After more months that I thought it would take, I am back! While I was away, we lost another Space Race pioneer: Navy Captain James Lovell, best know as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. Many credited his coolness under pressure as the one of the main reasons he and his shipmates survived that ordeal. He was laid to rest next to his wife Marilyn, who preceded him in death, at the Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.

There were also come cool updates about the Harlem Hellfighters and seven Nisei members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team so