Bob McCarty Writes

Today, I visited a cemetery in St. Peters, Mo., where nearly 100 people, mostly veterans and their spouses, were preparing the hallowed ground for ceremonies that will take place there on Memorial Day 2010. Four of them told me about their service and about what it meant to them to be able to honor fallen [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Speaking to a crowd in Las Cruces, N.M., on Memorial Day, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama revealed two things: That historians had made grievous errors in recording the events and circumstances of World War II; and That his uncle had lived in an attic for six months after returning from Europe after that war. Maria [...]

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While flipping through the news channels on this Memorial Day, I thought I saw Republican presidential candidate John McCain wearing a Purple Heart medal — like the one shown at left — on his lapel. Makes me wonder if Democrat Barack Obama was wearing a Liberal Order of the Bleeding Heart medal — like the [...]

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