Red Tails: Victory On Two Fronts

Red Tails comes out in theaters on January 20, just one week from today. It tells the story (in an action-drama format) of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots to serve the United States. Executive Producer George Lucas brings the story of these heroic fighter (and later bomber) pilots to the bring screen. These men went to war for our country and fought against a terrible evil in Europe despite the discrimination they faced in their own home towns. As dramatic and full of special effects as the movie is you have to remember that these were real men and what they did was incredibly brave in a number of ways.

Coincidentally to the movie coming out, Dover Publications has just republished a book called Red Tails: An Oral History of the Tuskegee Airmen by John B. Holway. The book is based on interviews with these courageous men.

There and Back Again

After TNT's Lord Of The Rings marathon during the Thanksgiving weekend, I was inspired to read The Hobbit. I was already reading Treasure Island (the unabridged version, for the first time) so I sped-read through that to finish.

I bought The Hobbit on Saturday afternoon and I finished it on Monday night. That has to be the fastest I have ever read any book. I quite enjoyed it and now I'm moving on to The Fellowship of The Rings.

My lament

There are too few history books about Long Island on Amazon. There aren't even that many references to them anywhere on the internet. There are plenty at the library though, even more so than you can see in their online catalog. Dewey decimal no: 974.721!