Far from their country and everything they love, soldiers long for food from home. Honoring those wishes, the ShopRite of Cherry Hill, N.J. developed a unique program that encouraged customers to buy gift packages that stores would send to the soldiers.
The program–called “Support Our Troops”–worked with Operation Military Pridea volunteer group that aims to boost [...]
In December of 1944, William McClarren of New Holland was a 22-year-old U.S. Army soldier serving his country in World War II. Drafted at 19 as a mechanic in the 565th ambulance company, McClarren had already survived landing with the first fleet at Normandy earlier that year.
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Collectors indulging their passions run certain risks. Especially when the passion to collect becomes an obsession. I once had a friend who collected only Mint In The Box Lionel Trains. And although his wife shared his interests, his uncompromising obsession for only the best eventually led to a divorce.
Such is the recent case of a [...]
Michigan Kettering University student Will Foster builds a half-scale German Panzer tank powered by a three-cylinder diesel engine. Foster’s tank features a camouflaged wooden shell, working treads, and an air cannon mounted on a 360-degree rotating turret that fires paint balls, golf balls and empty Red Bull cans. read more…
