by Minter Dial | Mar 23, 2014 | WWII
Arlington Cemetery Jeopardy Question: There has been an email circulating for well over 13 years. The email starts: “On Jeopardy the other night (MD: !), the final question was: “How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the Tomb of the...
by Minter Dial | Mar 21, 2014 | Social Media, WWII
Today would have marked my grandfather’s 103rd birthday. Three years ago, we celebrated what would have been his 100th birthday with a magical 24-hour global social experiment! Here was the result by the way… Nothing quite as grand today. However, in a...
by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2013 | Entertainment, Minter Dialogue, Podcast, WWII
Jan Thompson, Professor of Radio-Television at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the producer of a new feature-length documentary, “Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience,” which is going to premiere this Saturday (April 6) in Chicago, at the Gene...
by Minter Dial | Aug 24, 2012 | Entertainment, WWII
This week in 1938 (August 22), Hollywood’s most famous dancing duo, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, were featured on the cover of Life magazine. With the US still in the grips of the Great Depression and with war heating up in Europe, Astaire and Rogers were...
by Minter Dial | Jun 13, 2011 | Social Media, WWII
An idea, a cause & Facebook On March 21st, 2011, I celebrated with 70 other people around the world what would have been my grandfather’s 100th birthday. Although my grandfather, after whom I was named, was killed December 15, 1944, I wanted to pay tribute...
