by jeff.sanders | Aug 24, 2018 | Blog
I just taught my self defense class to several ladies. I teach every Monday night at a gym. We don’t do any fancy, silly “Karate Kid” moves. Instead I teach teenage girls, middle-aged homemakers, and retirees in their sixties simple, effective,...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog
You know it’s a bad century when people start enumerating world wars. World War II was certainly the worst man made disaster to befall the human race. Some 60 million people perished in six years of fighting. The war ended I Europe on May 8th and 9th, 1945 when...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog
This month is the 44th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation from the presidency. It was the evening of August 8, 1974 when he appeared on television, announcing that he was resigning as President, effective the next day at noon, August 9th. The next day I...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog
We never talked about the Korean War when I was a kid. All the movies, TV shows, and comic books were about our great triumph in World War II. The Vietnam War was still raging…so the jury was out (but we were thinking, “how could we lose? America never...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog
This spring and summer marks the 100th anniversary of the US military entering World War 1. The United States declared war on Germany in April of 1917 after intercepting a German telegram that was asking Mexico to ally with Germany against the US. A German submarine...
