American heroes

Local News from San Marcos and Hays County, Texas

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REST IN PEACE: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has released the identity of an American soldier killed in Syria on Friday, 3/30/2018 Master Sgt. Johnathan J. Dunbar, 36, of Austin, Texas, was seriously injured after a improvised explosive device detonated in Manbij, Syria, and later died from his injuries.

The true story of Waco's Col. Robert Howard.

Standing at Attention

American heroes singing country music? Sign us up! While on the road in Iowa, the insanely talented U.S. Army Field Band, the Six-String Soldiers, delivered an impromptu rendition of classic country song "Wagon Wheel." Packed inside a

Llewellyn Morris “Al” Chilson was born on April Fools’ Day, 1 April 1920, in Dayton, Ohio to a World War I veteran. The Chilson family later moved to

The United States and its allies began what is officially known as the Global War on Terrorism in October 2001 when they attacked Afghanistan in the wake of the terror attacks in the U.S. Two years later, the the allies expanded the war into Iraq. The U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021 and has […]

Many school children learn about pivotal historical happenings not from their textbooks but from feature films. Used judiciously, historical fiction can be a rich resource in the classroom, engaging students’ interest and providing educators a ready audience for discussing fact, fiction, and interpretation.

I love this painting/artwork, so I pinned it to remember to research the original artist. ( I don't, however, like the site it links to!)

Young Charles Bronson