Tony Blankley published the following poem every year to honor the troops. The editorial board is printing it one last time to honor Tony’s memory: I went into a public-‘ouse to get a pint o’ beer, ...

For the third day of a week of war poetry in The New York Sun, guest editor Phil Klay writes: One of my Marines, a somewhat wild character, used to complain that the local bars in Wilmington, North ...

Rudyard Kipling, the turn-of-the-century British poet who never wasted much time on subtlety, wrote a short, angry verse called “Tommy,” which dealt with civilian treatment of soldiers and went in ...

The Military Covenant, which recognises the unique position of forces personnel and their families, is being extended to NI as part of the DUP/Tory pact. Richard Doherty looks at its storied history.

Rudyard Kipling understood the mind of the British Tommy, the G.I. of his day. They were tough, hard men, often poorly educated and often poorly treated by a public which needed them to maintain and ...

The VA story is really an old story of free peoples mistreating their veterans. Go back to the late 1800s, and Rudyard Kipling was upbraiding Brits for their thoughtless abuse of "Tommy Atkins," the ...

Rudyard Kipling 84th death anniversary: Born in Mumbai, on December 30, 1865, Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, journalist, and author of several short stories, who was one of UK’s most ...

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