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I am so thankful that as a nation we have the privilege of joining together in prayer during the annual National Day of Prayer on May 6, as I believe our country is in need of prayer more than ever.
As I think about what a National Day of Prayer means, I am reminded of the powerful painting The Prayer at Valley Forge by Arnold Friberg, depicting Gen. George Washington kneeling beside his horse in the snow.
You can just imagine he felt the weight of his entire fledgling nation’s future on his shoulders at a time when things looked very bleak. I often feel that weight today, as I am sure many others do, as well.
During World War II, the
M1 Garand proved to be a deadly rifle in the hands of U.S. service members. The rifle was so loved by American G.I.s that no less than Gen. George S. Patton – “Old Blood and Guts” himself – revered the firearm and called it the “the greatest battle implement ever devised.” That’s saying something coming from a firearms aficionado like Patton, who was known to collect and carry a variety of American classics. The M1 Garand was one of the most popular rifles of all time. It would go on to serve valiantly in the Korean War, and it even found its way into the hands of soldiers serving in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam into the 1970s. What’s striking about the prolific use of the rifle is more than its combat reputation. Even as the Garand was earning its throne as one of the best battle rifles of all time, it was quickly being outpaced by modern detachable magazine-fed rifles.
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The 2016 presidential campaign was grinding on and Fort Worth’s Jeff Guinn, like the rest of the country, was hearing a lot about a big, beautiful border wall. That was enough to pique his interest in the past.
“It occurred to me that I live in Texas, and I’ve lived in Texas since I was 18 years old,” Guinn, 70, says by phone. “So that means I’ve lived here about 150 years now. And I didn’t know much about the history of the U.S.-Mexico border. Like I always do, I just started poking around, and it seemed to me that it would be worthwhile to have a book that had the real history, as opposed to the alternative facts.”
A classic showdown between Axis and Allies.
Here s What You Need to Know: Only the M1 Garand proved to be successful
There is no denying that the United States military’s M1 Garand was truly the best of the main battle rifles used in the Second World War. Whereas the other powers largely relied on bolt action rifles that were essentially little improved versions of what had been carried in the trenches of World War I, the American soldier and marine had some semi-automatic firepower.
Yet the M1 Garand wasn’t the only semi-automatic weapon employed in the war and both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany employed semi-autos. However, they were no M1 Garand, and it is doubtful Gen. George S. Patton would have called those attempts “the greatest battle implement ever devised.”
John Wayne made 142 movies in his career, mostly westerns and war films.
When actor John Wayne visited American soldiers in Vietnam in the summer of 1966, he was warmly welcomed. As he spoke to groups and individuals, he was presented gifts and letters from American and South Vietnamese troops alike. This was not the case during his USO tours in 1942 and ’43.
According to author Garry Wills’ 1998 book, “John Wayne’ America: the Politics of Celebrity,” the actor received a chorus of boos when he walked onto the USO stages in Australia and the Pacific Islands. Those audiences were filled with combat veterans. Wayne, in his mid-30s, was not one of them.