Bob McCarty Writes

The words above, overlaid on a photo I took in 2007, appear on a plaque at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis.  On this Memorial Day, I encourage you to read a post, A Real American Hero Was Honored Today, published April 14, 2008, about the funeral of a member of my church who [...]

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After being complicit in creating an $11 trillion-dollar deficit during his first four months in office, President Barack Obama admitted in a pre-Memorial Day weekend interview with CSPAN’s Steve Scully, “We’re out of money now.”
Now, it will be interesting to watch for answers to two pressing questions:

Will President Obama and his Democrat colleagues stop spending [...]

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I just posted a new video on YouTube that promotes My Father’s War Stories from World War II, a post I published Tuesday as a way to honor this Memorial Day all of those who paid the ultimate price in service to their country.

The stories were written by my father, a man who fought the [...]

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For the third consecutive year, I’ve chosen the days leading up to Memorial Day as appropriate for honoring all of those who paid the ultimate price in service to their country by publishing war stories written by my father, Ted, who served as a low-ranking enlisted man in the U.S. Army during World War II [...]

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Eighteen months ago, just prior to Memorial Day 2007, I introduced a 12-part series of stories written by my father, now 84, about his days as an Army private in Europe during World War II. Today, with Veterans Day being observed Tuesday, I feel obligated to highlight these stories again.
Please read these war stories and [...]

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