The most important men in my life have gone to war. The only two I knew as active soldiers during my life included my husband, 1st Lt. James Larry Hull, USAF killed in 1971. The other was my brother Lt. JG Clifton Rodney Decker, United States Navy. Both served in the Vietnam War. My brother came home; my husband did not, and his remains did not return home until 2006. My father, Clifton H. Decker, served in World War II, but he did not go overseas or into battle due to health … [Read more...]
An Amazing Movie
While millions of HBO fans await the final denouement of Game of Thrones, there’s another even more visually arresting film available on Netflix that’s also transfixing viewers, because it tells the story of a long-ago reality battle, not some CGI-generated fantasy of today. They Shall Not Grow Old is a viscerally powerful film, produced by academy award-winning New Zealand director Peter Jackson of The Lord of the Rings fame, whose own grandfather was a career British soldier who survived … [Read more...]
