Clik here to view.
Give the Devil His Due: Some of My Favorite Halloween Horror Films
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is All Hallows’ Eve, or Halloween. Judy and Minnie are out at a friends house while I sit with the porch light and other front lights out watching American Horror...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An End and A Beginning at the Twilight of a Career
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Toady was the turning of another page in my military career, probably the last one before I retire. I left my old command, reported in to my new command and will begin...
View ArticleClik here to view.
War Crimes: Revisiting the Rape of Nanking and Japanese War Crimes
Japanese Soldiers at Work in Nanking Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am starting to catch up a bit about other non-German and non-American atrocities committed in the name of war and in the name of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
History, Biography, and Organizing my Library at Home
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today has been a very difficult day where I worked in the house, the storage space, and. helped Judy and some of her friends break down their wares at the end of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Functionaries Ready to Believe and Act Without Asking Questions” Trump’s...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As I have thought about the actions of President Trump of the last week or so that I remembered the words of historian Timothy Snyder. He wrote in his book The Road to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“To Abandon Facts is to Abandon Freedom” The Trump Effect
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, After a long day yesterday we went out and hung out with friends for quite a while at Gordon Biersch. Then we came home and just watched television and read. I waited...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Books The Window to My Soul and the Guard of my Conscience
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, George R.R. Martin wrote in his book A Dance With Dragons: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Day of Fate: November 9th “Der Schicksaltag” in Germany
Schicksalstag: The Fateful Day Friends of Padre Steve’s World, There are some days in history that are crammed full world changing events, and sometimes those...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Banality of the Trump Administration: Reflecting on the Fall of the...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Thirty years ago the Berlin Wall came down. It was something that I never saw coming until the popular uprisings against the Warsaw Pact allies of the Soviet Union...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy 244th Birthday Marines
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, i will take a momentary break from politics and everything else to wish all United States Marines a Happy 244th Birthday. This one is more special than many others...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Armistice Day at 101 Years
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Forty years after the guns went silent in on November 11th 1918, General Omar Bradley, spoke these words on the eve of Armistice Day, 1948: Tomorrow is our day of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
For Me It’s Personal: Veteran’s Day 2019
With Advisors and Bedouin Family, Iraq Syria Border, Christmas Eve 2007 Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today is the official observance of Veterans Day, which actually falls on The anniversary of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Veteran’s Day Postscript: Belonging to a Different World
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I wrote about Armistice Day and Veteran’s Day but I decided to write a postscript to it today. I write this specifically as a combat veteran who more than a decade after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
40 Minutes of Hell: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Part One
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In the very early morning hours of November 13th 1942, one of the most intense short range battles in modern naval history was fought in the waters between Guadalcanal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Against Insurmountable Odds: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, part Two
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Last night I wrote about the opening engagement of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Despite the heroic battle to protect the Marines on Guadalcanal I the early morning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Public Impeachment Hearings: Damning But Not a Sure Thing
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This week we witnessed something that hasn’t been seen since I was in 9th grade, televised public impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives, and we saw the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“If Certain Acts and Violations of Treaties are Crimes, They are Crimes…”...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, A day after President Trump pardoned three convicted American war criminals against the strong objections of the Department of Defense and the military services. With...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A New Birth of Freedom and its True Meaning: The Gettysburg Address
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, The weekend before Donald Trump was elected President I was at Gettysburg with my students from the Staff College. We finished our staff ride at the Soldier’s Cemetery...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Beginning of Disaster at Stalingrad: Operation Uranus, the Revenge of the...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, On November 19th 1942 the Soviet Red Army launched Operation Uranus against the weakly held flanks of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. By 22nd 1942 the Commander of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Indictment of America Today: Justice Robert Jackson’s Opening Statement...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is hard to write this series of articles in the wake of President Donald Trump’s pardoning of American soldiers convicted of War Crimes and the Crime of Aggressive...
View Article
