Clarence Franklin Osborne was 27 years old when killed in action in the final weeks of World War II and was buried in the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. His body was later returned to ...

“President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. ‘Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of ...

My dad, who passed away in 1975, was a U.S. Navy veteran who served on the USS Wisconsin in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was 19 years old when he went to war. Later in his life, while I ...

As I was growing up, a tradition in our family was for my parents to give us ornaments each year from places they had traveled. My husband and I continued the tradition with our children … so we have ...

In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked her father if there was really a Santa Claus. He suggested she write to The Sun, a prominent New York newspaper because, as he said, “If you see it in ...

“I no longer feel confident predicting political events here. Economic policy? I feel good about using bandwidth.” – Yours truly, literally less than a week ago. “Just when I thought I was out, they ...

[Editor’s note: Facebook memories reminded of the largest political gathering I’ve ever seen in the Staunton-Waynesboro-Augusta County area: 2012’s October rally held at Augusta County’s Expoland in ...

While helping voters prepare for the 2024 election, Ballotpedia is covering 50 states in 25 days by providing important deadlines and information about what will be on the ballots. This week ...

Tenet Media, the Tennessee-based home of several far right, Trumpist social media “influencers,” has been a recipient of Russian funding totaling nearly $10 million (Tennessean). An indictment ...

Since the end of last week’s Democratic Convention, there have been mumblings that Vice President Kamala Harris needed, 1) to get her polices in place, and 2) have an interview with the press. My ...

More than 200 alumni from the administrations of Republican former President George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Mitt Romney, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, and they ...

All of us here at Bearing Drift offer our sincerest condolences to former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore and his sons, Jay and Ashton, at the death of his wife and their mom, Roxane Gilmore.