I love movies based on true to life stories. One of the best of these I have seen in a long time is “The Stand at Paxton County.” It is the true life story of a Dickinson, North Dakota, rancher, Gary Dassinger and his daughter, Missy. Missy was an Air Force Major stationed in Japan […]
A catalytic converter isn’t much to look at. To the untrained eye it looks a lot like a small rusty muffler. But, even though they aren’t much to look at they are filled with precious very expensive metals such as platinum, rhodium and palladium. Thieves cut them off and sell them for quick easy cash—a […]
One of the most enlightening radio programs I have ever heard was an interview of two college students who chose to live on the streets as homeless for 5 months as an experiment. “The idea had dropped into my brain one Sunday morning while I sat in church. The pastor was delivering a powerful sermon […]
In 1919, a young Army Lieutenant Colonel named Dwight D. Eisenhower took part in the Motor Transport Corps convoy that drove 3,251 miles between Washington D.C. and Oakland California. The mission was to determine the difficulties that military vehicles would have on a cross-country trip. They left from near the White House on July 7th […]
