I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I'm a man of peace.

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.