Leadership Stories
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A Veterans Day Gift: Your Story, in Your Own Voice
Memoir founder Ron Levi is offering 50 veterans a free audio chapter of their life story in their own voice. Claim it with code FENZEL.
The Battle That Actually Won It
Colonel Gerry Tertychny leads a free Heroes’ Path webinar on November 7 about how Yorktown was really won, starting with a French battle at sea.
The Fleet Washington Could Not Lose
At Yorktown, Washington’s siege depended on a French fleet he could not command. How he persuaded Admiral de Grasse to stay, and what followed.
Twenty-Nine Years Later
John returns to Yellowstone after twenty-nine years and crosses the park in a day, from frosted bison and wolves to a century of hard lessons.
Nine Hundred and Twenty-Eight Photographs
On October 16, 1962, photo interpreters working above a Washington Ford dealership showed President Kennedy proof of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
Say Their Names This December
Sponsor a $17 wreath through Heroes' Path for Arlington, Annapolis, or South Florida National Cemetery, and $5 returns to the foundation's youth programs.
True North in My Hands
Roger Donlon earned the Vietnam War's first Medal of Honor. Years later he put it in John's hands at a White House Fellows lunch.
The Holes at Their Fingertips
In 1944 Japanese guards massacred 139 American POWs on Palawan. Eleven escaped. Now an amphitheater is being built on the ground where they died.
When the Last Witnesses Are Gone
About 30,600 American World War II veterans are still alive. John remembers the veterans at his family's dealership and urges us to ask questions now.
Two by Two
For eight years Rick Rescorla made a Manhattan bank practice walking down the stairs. On September 11, 2001, they knew the way.
One Small Request
A boy, an old chief, and a debt that took a century to pay: Chief Joseph, the Bear Paw siege, and an unlikely friendship.
Seventeen Years of “No”
A widow, four presidents, and the letter that finally worked: how Sarah Josepha Hale gave America a national Thanksgiving.
October Second, Twice
How two WWII veterans, Charles Schulz and Rod Serling, smuggled the truth into America's living rooms.
Two Sticks of Gum
In the summer of 1948, thirty Berlin children at a fence asked an American pilot for nothing. Two sticks of gum changed that.
The Photograph She Carries
An evening with American Gold Star Mothers, and the neighbor who showed John the photograph she carries of her son.
"It was like having my mother's arms around me"
Elgin Staples went over the side at Savo Island with a rubber belt around his chest. His mother may have inspected it herself.
The Hero They Lost for a Century
John Paul Jones won the most famous fight in American naval history by lashing his ship to a bigger one.
One Hundred Days
What one man did with seventy-five days in 1843, and what you could do with the hundred left in your year.
Eighty-Two Letters
A German radio message went unread for eighty-five years. Last week, an AI program and a man with a Sunday read it in ten hours.