The ‘Jurassic’ Vietnam Vets Who Supersized the War on Drugs
heat on the streetBy the time he was 9 years old, Frank White knew he wanted to be a soldier, a dream that took him first to Vietnam and then to Nixon’s drug war on America’s mean streets.
Without the Heroic WWII Frogmen There Would Be No Navy SEALs
beneath the wavesOutfitted with little more than swim trunks, fins, and dive masks, frogmen were the Navy’s top-secret and lethally successful weapon in the Pacific.
Kenya’s Maasai Who Once Hunted Lions Are Now Their Saviors
PRIDEA decade ago, scientists worried the lion could go extinct in Kenya by 2020. But today the area’s lion population is thriving thanks to an extraordinary group.
The Radio Jock and Preacher Who Redeemed a Southern Town
REMEMBERING MLKAs Jim Crow laws stifled black citizens in the 1960s two men became pivotal in the fight for integration.
The Plane Went Down With His Wife, His Kid... and a Secret
TREE-TOP FLIERTony Mink was an experienced pilot, but as he flew his family to a Rocky Mountain Christmas vacation, he may have cut one corner too many. And then the blizzard hit.