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PHL17 IN FOCUS: The Vietnam War
Staff reporterPHILADELPHIA – Saturday, May 28, 2011 – 6:30-7:00am The Vietnam War resulted in the deaths of 58,267 Americans and the wounding of 350,000. 1,711 Americans remain missing. It is estimated that about 2 million North and South Vietnamese military and...Tags: International Military Interventions, History (tv network), Companies and Corporations, U.S. Army, WGN
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Best Movie War Heroes
Blogging with Bill WhiteOn this Memorial Day Weekend, it seems fitting to have some kind of movie list that salutes our war dead, so I decided to pull together a list of the Best 10 Movie War Heroes. If I were just choosing...... -
Local vets visit to WWII Memorial ‘out of this world’
TribLocal - Schaumburg » NewsNinety-year-old Chuck Esposito described his first time visiting the National World War II Memorial as “out of this world.” The resident of Friendship Village retirement …... -
Emotions run high as Maryland Army National Guard unit deploys
Chief Warrant Officer Joshua Chason held his 3-week-old daughter, Kuiper, as long as he could as she slept peacefully. The next time he picks her up, she will be a year older.
Chason is part of a 60-member Maryland Army National Guard unit that...Tags: Christianity, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood, Human Interest, Religion and Belief
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Veterans, military visit Steckel Elementary for Memorial Day
For some, war is decades old, the stuff of fond and not-so-fond memories. For others, it's happening now. But third-graders have a different sense of time. So for them, the men in women sitting in Steckel Elementary School's auditorium were all still...
Tags: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Whitehall, Steaks, Holidays
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Memorial Day events in the Orlando area
Memorial Day Ceremony: 11 a.m. Friday; Starke Lake Gazebo, 125 N. Lakeshore Drive, Ocoee. Ocoee Police Department Honor Guard and Ocoee High School Air Force JROTC Color Guard. Details: 407-905-3100. Veteran Salute: 1 p.m. Friday; Westchester of Winter...
Tags: Wekiva River, Human Interest, Orange County (Florida), Tuskegee Airmen, Entertainment
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Alexander Ludlum "Lud" Michaux Jr., career officer in Marines
Alexander Ludlum "Lud" Michaux Jr., a decorated career Marine Corps officer who fought in three wars and later presided over the transformation of McDonogh School into a coeducational institution, died May 20 of heart failure at Brightview Mays Chapel...Tags: Christianity, International Military Interventions, Anglicanism, United Nations, Johns Hopkins University
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Guillermo Martinez: Hidden images of the secret US war against Castro's Cuba unveiled
Jim Nickless was "embedded" on commando raids against Cuba 35 years before the word "embedded" became part of the journalism vernacular in the second Gulf War almost 40 years later. The year was 1964, and Nickless was looking for a way to link up with...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, White House, Cuba, Robert F. Kennedy
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Many Memorial Day events planned in East Penn area
Following is a list of events planned in the East Penn area for Memorial Day weekend. FRIDAY Eyer Middle School, 5616 Buckeye Road, will mark Memorial Day with a reading of "In Flanders Fields," written by Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae, during World...
Tags: John McCrae, Zionsville, Human Interest, Northwood, U.S. Marine Corps
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Memorial Day reveals our common history, unites us all
In an era of political struggles, blue and red states, and liberals and conservatives, we still have much to unite our country. Memorial Day reveals our common destiny; it's a holiday that binds America together. It's the one day that knocks down class...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Military, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Whitehall
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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...Tags: Engineering, World War II (1939-1945), Cancer, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Memorial Wall pays tribute to Texas' fallen soldiers
KIAHThe memorial honoring those who died during the Vietnam War includes a moving wall that travels around the country, bringing memories and closure and tears for those who visit. The Texas Fallen Heroes Memorial Wall is a traveling tribute to the state&...Tags: Human Interest, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Memorial Day
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