Dec. 21, 2016

Wake Island - the Other Story of December 1941

A story of immense valor and grit that played out on a distant outpost at the outset of World War II came to life for me on a 2011 Trans-Pacific mission. Wake is a unique place, and it is quite unlike Pearl Harbor in that tourists, civilians, and even most military members can't go there. When I was fortunate to be "stuck" there for eight days in