Often overlooked in history classes, Hannibal may have been the greatest military strategist of all time. His strategies were studied by Julius Caesar, Saladin, Robert E Lee and General Patton. Hannibal was a masterful motivator and seemed to always find a way out of predicaments with stunning efficiency. Contemporaries of Hannibal seemed to really like being around him and under his leadership. Given our historical view of the military battles of the classical Greeks and Rom

In His Own Words I met World War II hero Master Sergeant Robert Smouse in September of 2014. Once again, it was by happenstance that I saw him walking into the HEB Grocery-store with his hat on and I went to pay him respect for his service. After befriending him, he opened up to me about his experience and even gave me two priceless items, his own War Diary and the Diary of Admiral Sabin. At 17, he joined the US Navy after Pearl Harbor. As a Navy signalman he participated in