What if I told you that back in the early ’90s Christopher Walken made a movie about a killer with a blowtorch that was directed by Anson Williams. That’s right, Walken was directed by Potsie Weber from
Happy Days. Making it even stranger is that the film was written by Barry Sadler since the project was going to reunite him with Ken Russell who had directed his script for
Crimes of Passion. Somehow Ken didn’t make it out to Oklahoma and Anson Williams took over. Even though the movie didn’t end up on the big screen,
All-American Murder has quite a few big moments that deserve to be seen on a large HDTV.
In 1968, newly minted doctor joined NIH to dodge medical service with the U.S. military. Wed May 12, 2021 Dr. Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, has become quite the celebrity in America. Even so, as the COVID-19 pandemic winds down, key aspects of Fauci’s career remain largely unknown to the people. Fauci earned a medical degree at Cornell in 1966 but if he ever practiced medicine it was only for a short time. As Raymond S. Greenberg explains at Historynet.com, the mid-1960s were the days of “a compulsory draft of American physicians,” to serve in military hospitals in Vietnam. One of the few alternatives to that service was a position in the Public Health Service. Newly minted physicians could join the clinical associate program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Listening to History: Songs of the Civil War and What We Can Learn
Throughout American history, our wars have either popularized or produced songs that remain familiar to us today.
The American Revolution brought us many songs, but only “Yankee Doodle” has stood the test of time. Sung to an old tune and written originally as a song of English derision aimed at Americans during the French and Indian War, patriots of the Revolution took the song for their own, changed the words, and proudly played and sang it in their encampments. “Yankee Doodle” remains the state song of Connecticut.
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The U.S. Army Band, commanded by Colonel Andrew J. Esch, recently released a new version of the famous
Ballad of the Green Berets. And in the process, they made it all-inclusive to just about everyone and slapped Green Berets in the face.
Green Berets both love and hate the song. It is played at every graduation, promotion ceremony, and change of command.
The song is also played almost daily at 18:00 at Charlie Mikes Pub in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the home of Special Operations and Airborne, as they pay tribute to a fallen brother. On the anniversary of a fallen comrade, the Gold Star family, teammates, loved ones, and friends gather to toast the fallen. They play the
Today in Music History - March 5
The Canadian Press 2021-03-05
Today in Music History for March 5:
In 1882, Canadian soprano Pauline Donalda was born in Montreal. Considered a rival of the famous Melba in the early years of the 20th century, Donalda often replaced her in roles and sang with such renowned performers as Enrico Caruso. Most of her performing career was spent in Europe, but in 1937, she returned to Montreal. There she formed the Opera Guild and directed it until 1969, the year before her death.
In 1955, Elvis Presley made his TV debut on the regional show The Louisiana Hayride.