Not long ago, a friend alerted me to Gurney Journey, the website of artist James Gurney, and it has become one of my daily stops on my web rounds. Gurney comes up with a wide variety of fascinating items, including the video above that shows sometimes about which I was completely unaware: the lightning sketch • Read More »
Tags: British Pathe, Gurney Journey, James Gurney, lightning sketch artist
When the American public heard about what happened a year later, My Lai quickly became a symbol for America’s tragic misadventure in Southeast Asia. My Lai exposed the lack of clear mission, inadequate training, miscommunication, and less-than-straightforward truth-telling that had characterized the whole enterprise.
Tags: Agatha Christie, almonds, David Leonhardt, David Reynolds, Gurney Journey, In Command of History, James Gurney, James Madison, My Lai, Overlooked, Sabbath, shevah, Stone Fleet, sugar, Winston Churchill