“Why Won’t They Salute?” — How Australian Soldiers Defied a U.S. General Brisbane, November 27th, 1942. Outside the building tied to General Douglas MacArthur’s command, Australian soldiers and civilians were...
Four days before she died, Janis Joplin called her mother and told her she was engaged. Her mother asked who the man was. Janis described him. Her mother went quiet....
Houston, Texas, December 1969. The air inside the Sam Houston Coliseum wasn’t just hot. It was heavy. It was the kind of Texas humidity that sticks to your clothes and...
Before Janis Joplin died, she did something most people still don’t know about. She made sure the woman who helped shape her voice would no longer lie in an unmarked...
“Get Those Clowns Out Of My Sector” — How The Australians Proved Him Wrong Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, June 1965. Monsoon rain hammered the ground. American radios still...
Before Janis Joplin became one of the most unforgettable voices in rock history, people tried to turn her into a joke. They mocked her face, her body, her voice, her...
On October 18, 1969, inside the Hemisphere Arena in San Antonio, Texas, a young man stood near the front of a Janis Joplin concert and started dancing like the whole...
“Get Out Of My Way” — When An Australian Sergeant Humiliated A US Commander Saigon, MACV Headquarters, March 1971. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. The ceiling fans in Saigon never really...
Helmand province, Afghanistan. July 2008. The heat comes off the earth in waves you can almost touch. By 7:00 in the morning, it is already 38°. By noon, it will...
March 2003, Al Anbar province, western Iraq. Delta Force had been hunting Iraqi Scud sites for 4 days with vehicles, satellite imagery, and the full weight of American SOF resources...