On the night of January 21, 2023, Brandon Tsay, a 26-year-old from California, emerged as a hero by bravely disarming a gunman during the Monterey Park shooting. Tsay, who helps manage the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio in Alhambra alongside his family, was overseeing a Lunar New Year Celebration when
One of the last surviving female agents who served during WWII in the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) passed away recently.Nicola Pauline Marie Trahan parachuted into occupied France when she was only 17.Unlike other agents, notably Phyllis Latour, who passed away last October at the age of 103, very little
January, 1943.French Resistance agent Denise Bloch, 26 years old, hikes through the Pyrenees on her way to Spain. Wearing a skirt and half-length coat, she makes the trek on foot, in sub-freezing cold, at high altitude. She is lucky; already she has narrowly evaded capture by the Gestapo, not to
UPDATE February 8, 2024The story of Robert Smalls has gained a lot of attention since I wrote this article in 2020. PBS has aired 2 segments and there are two movies in development about his daring escape.Robert Smalls (1839-1915) was born a slave in South Carolina. During the Civil War,
The year was 1942, the Pacific Theater of World War II raged, and amidst the chaos, a quiet act of heroism unfolded. Charles Jackson French, a U.S. Navy mess attendant aboard the USS Gregory, wasn’t a man seeking glory, but when duty called, he answered with unwavering courage.French wasn’t on