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As it turned out, a report several days ago that a section of the lunch counter and stools from the historic 1960 Woolworth ...
How much do you really know about the American flag? Test your knowledge about the stars and stripes with this American Flag ...
Urbana's VFW Post #630 becomes home to history honoring Marine Cpl. Richard L. “Dick” Pittman, who lost his life on Iwo Jima, ...
Jesse Broyles sold peanuts for people and pigeons outside the Capitol from roughly 1959 to 1989, a beloved figure recovering ...
During the Second World War, American families placed a Blue Star in their home windows to show that they had a son in the ...
The first episode of the series covers January-March 1945, which includes the battles of Iwo Jima and Manila, the firebombing ...
Great, now we’re all crying. Does anyone have tissues in their carry-on bag? Another survivor, Mississippian E.J. Hayes, ...
Trump and his supporters are trying to purge ideas they dislike to chill the speech of opponents in public dialogue. It's authoritarian and dangerous.
Books on sensitive topics like the Holocaust ... he fought with 60,000 marines in the great battle at Iwo Jima in the Pacific. On Feb. 23, 1945, when the Americans took the island, Hayes was ...
Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest ...
The United Airlines charter flight, organized by the Iwo Jima Association of America and ... and the small prayer book he kept in his uniform pocket. Harter also made it to one of the landing ...