The Twilight Zone really did make you think. Like most truly revolutionary artistic endeavors, the show was the product of a singularly creative mind. Rod Serling was a remarkable man indeed.
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Dr. Dabbs – Killing Gandhi: The Beretta M1934
BY Will Dabbs Updated: January 7, 202478 at the time of his death, Mahatma Gandhi was admittedly both old and thin. However, three of these underpowered little bullets fired from an assassin’s gun still nonetheless extinguished his mortal light in short order.
Dr. Dabbs – Bella Twin: The Tiny Little Woman and the Really Big Bear
BY Will Dabbs Updated: September 15, 2023When confronted with such an enormous predator at such close range, Bella and her buddy wisely chose to disappear into the wood line and hide in hopes that the big animal might just pass them by.
Dr. Dabbs – Rod Serling: The Voyage into the Twilight Zone
BY Will Dabbs Updated: July 13, 2023The Twilight Zone really did make you think. Like most truly revolutionary artistic endeavors, the show was the product of a singularly creative mind. Rod Serling was a remarkable man indeed.
Dr. Dabbs – Child Soldiers: The Tale of Johnny Clem
BY Will Dabbs Updated: June 10, 2023Child soldiers are a blight in low-rent hotspots around the globe. Kids lack judgment, and all little boys are stupid. That’s why, in most civilized locales, you have to be a certain age to purchase alcohol or a gun. However, the world has no shortage of heartless monsters more than willing to kit out children to go forth and kill on an industrial scale
Major Aleksander Tarnawski: The Unkillable Polish Commando
BY Will Dabbs Updated: February 12, 2023On January 8, 2022, Aleksander Tarnawski turned 101 years old. 101 years prior he had entered the world kicking and screaming in Słocin in the Rzeszów poviat in Poland. Like most of the young males of his generation, Aleksander Tarnawski soon found himself swept up in the war.
The Cody Firearms Museum
BY Matt Kartozian Updated: February 5, 2023The Buffalo Bill Center of the West houses five museums, but I was there to check out the Cody Firearms Museum.
Oberscharführer Franz Staudegger and the Origins of the Tiger Legend
BY Will Dabbs Updated: November 20, 2022During World War 2 the German Tiger tank earned an outsized reputation among those who faced it.
1SG Bradley Kasal: A Real-Live Superhero Amidst a Company of Superheroes
BY Will Dabbs Updated: November 13, 2022In the winter of 2004 a joint US, Iraqi, and British operation kicked off in Iraq. Local forces called it Operation Al-Fajr. Allied troops titled it Operation Phantom Fury. The world came to know this simply epic scrap as the Second Battle of Fallujah.
Bukit Kepong: The Malaysian Alamo
BY Will Dabbs Updated: November 4, 2022There is something visceral about the last stand. A small forlorn band bereft of support arrayed against insurmountable odds fighting to the last simply strikes a primal chord. Examples are well-documented. The Hot Gates at Thermopylae, Custer’s slaughter, and the Alamo stand out. These many tales of selfless bravery are profound and powerful. One lesser-known example is the siege of Bukit Kepong.