This photo is of a truce meeting gone wrong at Panmunjom. A mob of North Koreans beat and stomp an American (on the ground at right). If you look closely at the guy on the far left, you can see a North Korean with a cigarette dangling from his mouth participating in the mayhem.e mayhem.

This picture shows ancient statues carved circa 1790 (China ruled Korea then) sitting forlornly in a vacant field in the DMZ. I wonder if they have been plowed over to make room for a housing development.    

This shot This photo is of First Platoon at the JSA in Panmunjom. The author of this website is in the center brandishing an M-16. 

Poor Michael Jackson. Even though I was never a fan of the man, I have to feel empathy for a short life that was largely devoid of happiness. But I’ve come to view him in a larger context, because in a way, he was a symbol of an America that went wrong. He represents the unhealthy growth of the cult...

        The trouble with being a hero By David Thornton          Not everyone wants to be a hero anymore. Charles Barkley even turned it down a few years ago. There are not too many war heroes anymore; it fell from an honor to an embarrassment during Viet Nam. The churches changed...

Editor’s note: Columnist Maureen Valdes Marsh and I (John Sammon) are doing a series of columns giving our opinions (male versus female) on the same topics. We do not compare notes before writing these. You may read more of Maureen’s writings on her “Musings” page at Vintagegrace.com. What...

When the Evil Queen in Snow White looked at her reflection saying, “Mirror, Mirror, on the wall. Who’s the fairest of them all?” she was looking for reassurance that she was still top of the food chain. She didn’t want to hear that the fairest was some young up-start destined...

Reader’s Note – Columnist Maureen Valdes Marsh of Vintagegrace.com and I are doing a series where we voice opinions on the same topics, under the title, “He Thinks, She Thinks.” Below is the second installment. We do not compare notes before writing these. What do I see when I...

                Author’s note. I asked Maureen Valdes Marsh, a columnist at Vintagegrace.com, to write a column on what a woman wants from a man. I answered the same question in reverse, what does a man want from a woman? Below are the two different responses.       ...

By Maureen Valdes Marsh Jul 25, 2005 Movies, books, songs – they all profess to know what a woman wants. That would all be fine and dandy if you lived your life in 90 minutes, or 20 chapters, or 3 minutes and 30 seconds. But what of the real world, where you can’t rewind the movie...