We Are The Mighty

War stories often end with a homecoming. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” begins there. The film delivers everything audiences expect from Homer: towering monsters, impossible voyages, brutal combat, gods who play with men, and just enough spectacle to be worthy of Nolan’s mythic epic. But beneath the surface is a quieter, more devastating observation—one familiar to generations of warriors. Getting home isn’t the victory. It’s learning how to live there again.

A month after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States Army took a drastic step amid the fear and hysteria gripping the nation. In January 1942, it booted out all Japanese American soldiers and ROTC cadets from the service. Upset by the decision, a group of Japanese American cadets in Hawaii pleaded their case to the state’s military governor. “Hawaii is our home, the United States our country,” they implored, according to a 2025 article on the Army’s website.

Veterans who served from the mid-1980s up to today will likely be familiar with the iconic 9mm Beretta M9. Despite the formal adoption of the SIG Sauer M17/M18 handgun as the official U.S. military sidearm in 2017, the M9 remains in some active duty arms rooms and, as of 2026, service members are still qualifying with the weapon.

In 1941, the United States Embassy gave Mildred Gillars a way out. She didn’t take it. Gillars worked for Third Reich Radio in Germany, and as her broadcasts became more anti-American and anti-Semitic, the Americans took notice. Embassy officials wanted Gillars, a native of Portland, Maine, to quit her job and go home to the U.S. After she refused, they took her passport.

A premature newborn with elevated lead levels, a child who missed nearly half the school year because of mold-related illness, and families reporting electrical fires, flooding and cockroaches infesting kitchen appliances.

The active duty Army likes to poke fun at the soldiers in the National Guard and Reserve components, sometimes calling them “Weekend Warriors.” But the Guard and Reserve play a critical role in supporting the active duty component and the broader Army’s mission. Nowhere was this more apprent than during the height of the Global War on Terror, when Guard and Reserve soldiers were regularly deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Okay, so if you’ve been seeing summer blockbusters and/or you’re into movie trailers, then you probably saw the teaser trailer for Tom Cruise’s upcoming film “Digger.” The teaser for the “comedy of catastrophic proportions” began with two minutes and 26 seconds of a Tom Cruise demo reel. Also Read: It’s official: ‘Top Gun 3’ is in development The teaser-trailer also starts with a list of his IMDb credits. This is a screengrab from the trailer. What is happening, am I right??

Working at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is more than another government job. Veterans spent years dedicated protecting the American homeland. Working at the USPTO is directly protecting individual Americans by helping them defend their innovations. Since all we ever really have is what our minds can conceive, working for the agency that protects our ideas might be the most important job in government. All that and you get paid, too.

Dmitry “Jimmy” Viner was at the Sikorsky Aircraft Company on November 29, 1945, doing nothing as important as what his next job entailed. When the telephone rang, Viner answered it. He learned two men required rescuing from a grounded barge, which separated from an oil tanker and became trapped on Penfield Reef near Fairfield, Connecticut. The helicopter crew on-site couldn’t land because of the terrible waves, and no boats could maneuver close enough to the barge to save Capt.

Marine Corps veteran and entrepreneur Jerry Shaffer was attending a veterans’ social in Clearwater, Florida. Among the dozens of people at the event was Michelle, a woman from the Bronx, who told him that her husband spent 24 years in the Army and retired in nearby Tampa. Four years later, he took his own life, leaving her alone with twins. Also Read: Reports show a military spouse commits suicide every 8 days Five years after his suicide, she still hadn’t talked to anyone about it.