On a sweltering July night in 1834 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cutter of Charlestown Massachusetts had just sat down to dinner when the family dog began barking incessantly at the front door.  Mr. Cutter opened the door to find a young woman, Sr. Mary John (before her vows Elizabeth Harrison) of the neighboring Ursuline Convent School on the front steps in her nightgown talking … [Read more...] about The Burning of the Ursuline Convent and the Power of Defaming Rumor

In this centennial year of 1916, it has been interesting to note the extreme and factually flawed measures of some revisionist in their desperate attempts to undermine the courage and cause of the men and women of the revolutionary generation.   One such example is the rewriting of WW I, which heretofore had usually been considered one of the greatest follies of mankind, into a … [Read more...] about The Green Flag that is a Historical Red Flag

In the historically Irish neighborhood of Woodside, Queens stands a monument to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country in the Vietnam War.  On the monument is inscribed the names of 27 young men from the local Zip Code of  11377,  more than from any other postal code in the nation to die in that conflict.   However, the Irish community of Woodside has another … [Read more...] about The Childhood Friends Who Earned the Medal of Honor