A new poll suggests a third of Americans believe sending troops to fight in World War II was a mistake. Economist / YouGov poll looked at various conflicts spanning over the last 100 years.
Ian Houston Memorial Day in the United States falls on the last Monday of May. The day honours military personnel who died in the performance of their duties while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Around each Memorial Day, I set time to visit various monuments in Washington, DC in quiet remembrance of the fallen. The Vietnam War Memorial is particularly moving. Of the 57,939 individuals remembered on the memorial’s granite wall there is one brave Scot. His name was Alexander Chisholm. Alexander was born in 1941 in Dumbarton Castlehill west of Glasgow and grew up in Quarry Knowe. By all accounts, he was a gregarious, smart, and kind person who was beloved by his family and friends. I think of Alexander as a young boy and lad at Dumbarton Academy working through his lessons, and training as a young man to be an engineer at a local factory having no sense of what his future held.
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