by jeff.sanders | Dec 17, 2019 | Blog
Is there no character that Tom Hanks cannot portray in an amazing way? He was a very believable Walt Disney in “Saving Mr. Banks” (a movie I laughed and cried through). He was riveting as Captain Sully. I was scared to death right along with him as he...
by jeff.sanders | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog
Way back in 1976 I saw the “blockbuster” movie of Midway. It starred Charleton Heston, Henry Fonda, and all the greats. Great actors. Not a great movie. It was riddled with historical inaccuracy and all sorts of fiction. Typical for Hollywood. The other...
by jeff.sanders | Nov 25, 2019 | Blog
It had been percolating for years. The Soviet Union, with its repressive command and control government, simply could not keep pace with the Free World. In 1989 when communist governments fell in East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, it was only...
by jeff.sanders | Nov 25, 2019 | Blog
The Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, and the old Soviet bloc communist nations of eastern Europe soon became history. Most of them peacefully transitioned into western style free republics. Romania was an exception. On December 15 the Romanian communists...
by jeff.sanders | Nov 10, 2019 | Blog
It’s been 30 years since the Berlin Wall came down? Honestly, it seems like yesterday. My wife and I had been married for about a year and a half. We watched on television and were stunned as people smashed and hacked away at the concrete wall with the communist...
