War

Singers and Songs

Other People and Players

  • Lt. Don Briggs
    (Clip played)
  • Jack Nitzsche
  • Edwin Starr
    “Blood is spilled too often for too little.”
  • Johnny Mercer
  • Charlie Poole
  • Jim England
  • Louvin Brothers
  • Fred Rose
  • Hank Williams
  • Roy Orbison
  • Doc Gibson
  • The Everly Brothers
  • Peewee King
  • Stephen Foster
  • Jimmy Driftwood
  • Robert Vincent
  • Donovan
  • Elvis
  • John Paul Jones
  • Wilson Picken
  • Ben E King
  • Don Covey
  • Percy Mayfield
  • Jack Good
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Duke Ellington
  • Berry Gordy
  • Quincy Jones
  • Bill Crosby
  • Angelo Bond
  • Greg Perry
  • Bertrand Russell
    “War does not determine who it right, only left.”
  • Plato
  • General Patton
  • Mars and Aries
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • President McKinley
  • Teddy Roosevelt
  • Attila the Hun
  • Pope Leo I
  • Winston Churchill
  • (He coined phrase, Cold War)
  • Gerald Holtham
  • Shakespeare
  • John Bailey Tyler
  • Calvin Graham
  • President Coolidge
  • General Johnson
  • Albert Einstein
    “You can not prevent and prepare for war at the same time”
  • Simon Goldman
  • Ben Andrews
  • Harold Russell
  • William Wyler

Other Songs and Albums

  • Tennessee Waltz
  • Hot Like a Wheel
  • American Patrol
  • They Took the Stars Out of Heaven
  • GI Blues
  • Slipping Around
  • I Got Ya
  • Band of Gold

Record Labels

  • Bluebird
  • Excello
  • Sony
  • Paramount

Places

  • Chicago
  • Mississippi
  • Frederick, Maryland
  • Dusseldorf
  • Hamburg
  • Germany
  • Saskatchewan
  • Nashville
  • Korea
  • Pasadena
  • Black Sea
  • Australia
  • Peebles, Scotland
  • Rome
  • Italy
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Roman Empire
  • Grand Ole Opry
  • Guam
  • Puerto Rico
  • Spain
  • Havana
  • US Maine
  • Cuba

Books and Poems

  • The Art of war

Movies and TV Shows

Military Abbreviations

  • PRF

    Private First Class

  • CPL

    Corporal

  • SGT

    Sergeant

  • LT

    Lieutenant

  • CP

    Command Post

  • OD

    On Duty or Operation Directive

  • MP

    Military Police

  • PVT

    Private

  • LIEUT

    Lieutenant

  • KP

    Kitchen Patrol

  • QT

    Quick Time

  • AWOL

    Absent Without Official Leave

  • MEDIVAC

    Medical Evacuation

  • MIA

    Missing In Action

  • KIA

    Killed In Action

  • SOP

    Standard Operating Procedure

  • “And WILCO is the name of a band, and we can not forget FUBAR and SNUFU. I can‘t tell you what those mean because this is a family program.”

Wars

Misc

Civil War Firsts

  • Workable Machine Gun
  • Snorkel breathing device
  • Aerial Reconnaissance
  • Flame Throwers
  • Military Telegraphs
  • Metal of Honor
  • Telescopic sites for rifles
  • Repeating rifles
  • Bugle call “Taps”

Celebrities Who Fought in War