Bataan Death March



A Japanese sergeant dropped a bottle of Coke where John Mims was supposed to walk, so he picked it up and gave it to him. Afterward, he was punished for his ‘lack of respect.’ “Since I didn’t bow, he took the bottle and busted my teeth out,” he said. Mims, a Bataan Death March survivor, and approximately 70,000 other Filipino […]

Rain, rain and lots more rain

Northeast Ohio

Good morning friends, neighbors and anyone who may be reading this, including all Engle and Sergent relatives. Hope every one is having a beautiful day. We seem to be having lots of rain and storms. Seems every day we get storms with lots of thunder, lightning and rain, rain and more rain. Things aren’t going too well around here. Red […]

Political Cartoon



Millions are spent on ‘war,’ but miners aren’t beneficiaries

Editorial

Thanks to Lexington Herald-Leader reporters John Cheves and Bill Estep, we have learned of a huge spending blitz by “pro” and “anti” forces in the continuing “war” between the coal industry and environmentalists. For instance, while the pro-mountaintop mining organization Coal Mining Our Future was spending $1.1 million during a recent three-year period to further its cause, the environmental behemoth […]

The original reformer




Let’s praise a struggling conservative reform movement seeking to disentangle the right’s cause from extremism and to make its ideas more compelling to a younger and broader swath of Americans. It’s a movement of diverse strands and competing motives. Some conservatives are looking for a much larger dose of reform than others. The change-as-little-as-possible wing would keep the same old […]

About those who abuse their health



In addition to being a fine actor, James Gandolfini was smart and rich. He could afford the best medical care the West has to offer and understand the stakes of being so overweight and stressed. Yet he let his weight balloon in an orgy of careless eating and drinking. Did he think himself invincible or assume that he had time […]

17 years and worth the wait



Seventeen and excited. Singing about sex and dying young. I’m not talking about The Doors. I’m talking about the cicadas known as “Brood II,” which have emerged from the earth in enormous numbers this summer, from Texas to Massachusetts, after 17 years, to sing, mate and die. My family and I spend our summer vacation in upstate New York, which […]

The Way We Were

Mayking’s ‘Marauder Man’

On September 10, 1920, Ray Harding Hogg was born in the community of Mayking, the fourth child of Charles and Lina Hogg. Quiet and unassuming, Ray would be anything but average. He attended school faithfully, and in 1939 graduated from Whitesburg High School. That fall, Ray enrolled at Eastern Kentucky State College to pursue a degree in education. By 1941, […]

Clips from available Mountain Eagle pages since our founding in 1908



July 1, 1943 Beginning today, Uncle Sam will start having employers deduct withholding taxes from the pay of their employees. The new system was devised by Congress to keep people as up to date on paying their annual income taxes as possible. The deductions will be at the rate of 20 percent of all earnings over personal exemptions, which is […]

Salome’s Stars



ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your persistence pays off as the information you demanded starts to come through. The pace is slow at first, but it begins to speed up as the week draws to a close. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) An unwelcome bit of news jolts the Bovine, who would prefer that things proceed smoothly. But […]