In the 1999 movie “October Sky,” a young Homer Hickam (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) witnessed Sputnik (launched Oct. 4, 1957) travel across the ink black sky of Coalwood, West Virginia. Inspired, he began a journey of model rocketry that would turn his passion into a career at Cape Canaveral working for NASA. It is a
Juneteenth has passed if you look at the date on the calendar. Yet Juneteenth is important to remember as not a fixed date on a calendar but as a span of time. The emancipation of slaves was a process. Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery continued in certain areas like Texas, where the last 250,000
June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. This Day of Days would pave the way for the liberation of Europe. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious invasion in military history consisted of 160,000 Allied troops, 11,000 Allied Aircraft, 7,000 ships and boats, and thousands of other vehicles. According to the National WWII
Monday, May 6, 2024, marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, which runs from the Sunday before through the following Sunday. Yom Hashoah also coincides with the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar and marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April 19, 1943. It is
By Wes Sones This year, marks the 79th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled “Fortress Europe.” The allied landings have been dramatized in films like “The Longest Day,” starring an ensemble cast featuring Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Sean Connery, and Henry Fonda, to name a few. The landings were
