Larry Schwab, M.D. Captain, U.S. Army, 25th Infantry Division October 1967 – October 1968 […]
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Interview: Richard Schneider / A Coastie Meditates on War and Peace
Retired Coast Guard Reserve Rear Admiral Richard Schneider has been serving his country since […]
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Vietnam News October 2013
POWs Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Nixon White House Dinner Two hundred former Vietnam War […]
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Imprisoned at Ground Zero: American POWs in Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, it was the worst place to be for this group of American POWs
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The Brigade That Never Quit: Chalmers’ Mississippians at Shiloh
James R. Chalmers was not satisfied. The Mississippian had enjoyed a long, successful life, making his name and fortune as a lawyer and a planter; as a vocal member of the Mississippi Secession Convention and then as a Confederate general; and after Reconstruction as a multi-term representative in Congress. But by the 1890s, he longed for one more commodity: justice.
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Phantom of the Deep: Germany’s Underwater Wonder Weapon
Germany’s stealthy Type XXI U-boat was a true technological breakthrough, but it aided the Allies more than the Nazis
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Reconquista
When Ferdinand and Isabella retook Granada in 1492, they ended eight centuries of Muslim […]
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Civil War Soldiers Expected Bullets and Bombs. This One Did Battle With a Bug.
Multi-legged dangers lurked in camp and field. Civil War soldiers expected to duck bullets and bomb bursts. But Ohioan William W. Richardson discovered that a simple crawling creature could also lay a fighting man low, and even cause a lifetime of torment, when a bug “invaded” his ear during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.
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Daily Quiz for July 11, 2017
Abraham Zapruder, the amateur photographer who recorded the most sought after film of the President John Kennedy’s assassination, sold it to this organization.
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How Did People Party in the 1700s an 1800s?
How Did People Party in the 1700s an 1800s?