Tag: war
group name: historyrules
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June 23, 2006 11:03 PM EDT --
I'd like to introduce you to Captain Nichola Goddard. Captain Goddard was 26 years old on May 2, 2006. She was well loved by family . . .
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September 28, 2007 11:40 AM EDT --
I am absolutely riveted to the TV screen as I watch Ken Burn’s production of World War II, and in particular how it affected average families all over the United States. I think Burns has done . . .
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August 05, 2006 05:53 PM EDT --
Many Canadian men won the Medal of Honor during the Civil War.
Charles Asten
Charles was born in Nova Scotia in 1834. He served as Quarter Gunner on the USS Signal. As the Signal patrolled the Red River . . .
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February 11, 2007 12:36 PM EST --
He was 17 when he enlisted, so eager to serve his country that he had his father sign him into the army. It was 1967, and there was no doubt that he would be shipped off to Vietnam. . . .
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October 04, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
I woke up at 2 A.M. and started thinking of Elsie’s problems. I decided to get up and send her a message.
Then curiosity struck me about her town of Wappinger Falls, NY, and . . .
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June 18, 2007 01:39 AM EDT --
On November 26, 1950, 2nd Lt. William T. Howard (my father) was one of 30,000 United Nations troops under the command of American General Douglas MacArthur in northeast Korea. (7th Army, B Company, . . .
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May 26, 2007 06:10 PM EDT --
In honor of Memorial Day 2007, I spent this afternoon meandering through a peaceful cemetery with much to offer to those patient enough to take a leisurely stroll through time.
My . . .
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September 06, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
I wrote this story a few months ago for a local magazine, but with the recent death (in September) of Maudie Hopkins , it just seemed like a good time to bring it back out. I posted a link to the magazine . . .
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May 16, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
I had just assumed that upon the death of the last WWI combat veteran there would have been some mention of him in the major media, after all World War One was our official coming out party as a great . . .
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May 08, 2008 08:28 PM EDT --
It's time for mail call again
But one soldier steps away
knowing there will be nothing
in the bag for him this day
He has no family back home
His friends are there with him . . .
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June 01, 2007 07:07 PM EDT --
I have recently joined this site, and am perplexed to discover that I am the only king and saint among the members.
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June 22, 2007 09:20 AM EDT --
On this day, June, 22, 1941, Hitler's troops intruded the Soviet territory and the war - which we call the Great Patriotic War - began. The war which took lives of more than 26 million of my fellow . . .
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August 21, 2006 05:27 AM EDT --
I am currently reading this book. I am within 20 pages of being done. If you want to read a good book on World War II this is it. It is written fron the tapes of interviews done after . . .
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September 28, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
It was in the mist of the Civil War that West Virginia became a state. It was the year 1863, June 20th. The Union needed soldiers to serve in the Union Army. It was . . .
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July 26, 2006 01:09 AM EDT --
"Kristallnacht was the prelude to the destruction of a whole people, and an indication of what happens when a society falls victim to its baser instincts." Sir Martin Gilbert
On November 9, . . .
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September 22, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
I got this in a e-mail a few times and have always stopped to read it. It gives an inside view of the people in the famous photo of the marines holding up the American Flag together at Iwo Jima. The rest . . .
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January 03, 2009 03:47 PM EST --
The Emperor Conrad III, having besieged Guelph, Duke of Bavaria,--[In 1140, in Weinsberg, Upper Bavaria.]--would not be prevailed upon, what mean and unmanly satisfactions soever were tendered to him, . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Subject: Muqtada al-Sadr, Threats and Possibilities ...
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:31:36 -0800
The day before yesterday, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered
his Mahdi army to fight America's . . .
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September 29, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
Tokyo Rose a.k.a. Iva Toguri DÁquino
Most people in the USA have heard of Tokyo Rose. They have seen too . . .
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October 15, 2008 05:58 PM EDT --
DOUGLAS A-1E SKYRAIDER
During the Viet Nam War many a grunt on the ground prayed for close air support on more than few occassions. Usually we would take whatever was sent but our all . . .
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