In early March, the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, led an expedition 800 kilometres east of Australia, where he found the long-lost wreck of the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea almost 76 years ago. From those dark depths, history came to light and to life.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
Rob Purvis was 20 years old when he, Butch, Larry and Billy—school buddies from Winnipeg—crossed the border and joined the United States Army in Fargo, N.D. It was 1968, they needed work and they yearned for adventure. They got work, all right, and more adventure than they had bargained for. They all wanted to go to Vietnam, and they all did.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
He made for the best Christmas ever, but my G.I. Joe would come to teach me hard lessons about life and loss.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
