l2910 An American colonel was stirring a pot over a fire beside the Dobodura airstrip when a young Australian officer found him. The Australian, Lieutenant Colonel Robertson, was the senior liaison officer to General Edmund Herring, who commanded New Guinea Force. He had come looking for the American front line and found the division commander had … Read more
A photograph taken on April 8, 1971, on a low mound of red earth in South Vietnam shows six men who had just returned from nine days in the jungle, squinting toward the camera. Four Australians stand around an American, a U. S. Navy SEAL who had volunteered to accompany them into one of the … Read more
Soitin pojalleni jouluaaton aamuna puilon parkkipaikalta. Kainalossani kääröllinen ruskeaa käärepaperia ja kädessäni punaisen nauhankerä. Kysyin, haluaisiko hän minut jouluaaton illalliselle vai joulupäivän aamiaiselle. Hänen vaimonsa otti puhelimen ennen kuin hän ehti vastata ja sanoi, että joulu oli jo pidetty. He olivat viettäneet koko homman edellisenä iltana hänen omien vanhempiensa kanssa. Laskin kääröni ja nauhan pakettiauton … Read more
Actress Natalie Wood was found floating face down in the Pacific Ocean off Catalina Island on the morning of November 29, 1981. She was 43 years old, alone in the water in a nightgown and down jacket, roughly a mile from the yacht where she had gone to sleep the night before. The three men … Read more
A family photograph from the early 1970s shows Tina Turner and Ike Turner surrounded by four young boys, all smiling like any proud family. Within a few decades, every one of those boys would be gone except one, with Tina repeatedly burying children she had described as the happiest moments of her life. Long before … Read more
In November 1755, at the start of the French and Indian War, a small Moravian mission in eastern Pennsylvania was destroyed in a brutal attack by Delaware Indians. The massacre at Gnadenhutten, on the Mahoning Creek near the Lehigh River, claimed the lives of eleven people and marked a violent turning point for a community … Read more
As American forces closed in on Guam in the summer of 1944, Japanese headquarters on the island sent daily radio reports to Tokyo for as long as they had a working set and a man to key it. In the final days, those reports went out from two concrete bunkers built in a bamboo-covered hollow … Read more
Charles Bronson, the Hollywood icon known for his stone-faced intensity and explosive action films, was one of the most private men in the entertainment industry. While audiences saw him deliver justice on screen, his role as a father was kept far from the spotlight. He had seven children, two with his first wife, two with … Read more
Istunto oli varattu jo viikkoja sitten, ja minä menin sinne toiveikkaana. Ajattelin, että tämä olisi meidän tilaisuutemme nollata, puhua asiat halki ammattilaisen kanssa ja löytää takaisin toisemme. Olin väärässä. Nimeni on Alex, ja viime vuoteen asti luulin, että avioliittoni oli kunnossa. Viisi vuotta yhdessä, ei vielä lapsia, mutta olimme puhuneet niistä. Tai minä olin puhunut. … Read more
Mies, jota olin rakastanut ja josta olin huolehtinut neljäkymmentä vuotta, näytti jättäneen minut oman onneni nojaan. He nauroivat minulle päin naamaa suoraan notaarin toimistossa, asianajan ja koko perheeni edessä, kun sain ränsistyneen talon ja pinon vanhoja papereita. Mutta Harry Virtanen ei koskaan tehnyt mitään ilman syytä. Ja minä, Eeva Salo, olin juuri tajuamassa, että heidän … Read more