http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/01/06/air-force-colonel-goes-from-pentagon-to-homelessness.html?ESRC=navy.nl AF Colonel Goes From Pentagon to Homelessness Philadelphia Inquirer | Jan 06, 2014 After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the...

They don't make many like Col. Day. Rest in peace colonel. Retired Col. George "Bud" Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam and was Arizona Sen. John McCain's cellmate, has died at the age of 88, his widow said Sunday. Day, one of the nation's most highly...

This was his last letter. Hopefully, his spirit survives. On February 24, 1836, during Santa Anna's siege of the Alamo, Travis wrote a letter addressed "To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World": Fellow citizens and compatriots; I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the...