Geoff Benton
@historiangeoff.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution, Museum professional
Haunted Eyes
I’m not a young man any more, in fact, at 42, I was born closer to the end of World War 2 than today. My parents are both baby boomers. Their parents fought the war. When I was born less than 38 years had passed since Japan surrendered and ended the war. I heard the stories. The good…
I’m not a young man any more, in fact, at 42, I was born closer to the end of World War 2 than today. My parents are both baby boomers. Their parents fought the war. When I was born less than 38 years had passed since Japan surrendered and ended the war. I heard the stories. The good…
Haunted Eyes
I’m not a young man any more, in fact, at 42, I was born closer to the end of World War 2 than today. My parents are both baby boomers. Their parents fought the war. When I was born less than 38 years had passed since Japan surrendered and ended the war. I heard the stories. The good and funny, like fishing with grenades or flights with a crazy pilot in a plywood plane over nazi lines and eventually I heard the bad stories too.
geoffbenton.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Haunted Eyes
I’m not a young man any more, in fact, at 42, I was born closer to the end of World War 2 than today. My parents are both baby boomers. Their parents fought the war. When I was born less than 38 years had passed since Japan surrendered and ended the war. I heard the stories. The good…
I’m not a young man any more, in fact, at 42, I was born closer to the end of World War 2 than today. My parents are both baby boomers. Their parents fought the war. When I was born less than 38 years had passed since Japan surrendered and ended the war. I heard the stories. The good…
We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honor but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.
Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce
August 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honor but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.
Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce
Check out my article " A Connection of This Kind" in the newest issue of The Hudson River Valley Review
June 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Check out my article " A Connection of This Kind" in the newest issue of The Hudson River Valley Review
I think the United States of America fell this weekend. The present has abdicated most of his power to a billionaire oligarch who now has his personal employees commandeering government agencies and money. Congress is too cowardly to do anything about it. The America formed in 1787 is gone.
February 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I think the United States of America fell this weekend. The present has abdicated most of his power to a billionaire oligarch who now has his personal employees commandeering government agencies and money. Congress is too cowardly to do anything about it. The America formed in 1787 is gone.
There's no such thing as a Rlman salute. No historical records exist showing one. The Belamy salute invented in 1892 to go along with the pledge of allegiance seems to be it's origin. We don't need to get into how anti immigrants the pledge was. Fascists borrowed the salute in the 1920s. Now no one
January 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There's no such thing as a Rlman salute. No historical records exist showing one. The Belamy salute invented in 1892 to go along with the pledge of allegiance seems to be it's origin. We don't need to get into how anti immigrants the pledge was. Fascists borrowed the salute in the 1920s. Now no one
