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World War II Magazine
In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army’s color barrier. The American soldiers hemmed in on the east bank of the Rhine River were desperately protecting their tenuous Remagen bridgehead, resisting...
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Vietnam Magazine
Soldiers with M-16s welcomed Air Force Captain Eunice Splawn to the airfield outside the 22nd Casualty Staging Facility in Da Nang. She had volunteered to work in the one place in the world that needed her most, Vietnam. The date was...
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Vietnam Magazine
It was 1967 and I was a medical supply sergeant with the 3rd Tactical Dispensary, stationed at Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon. Our facility had only six beds and a small medical staff. We took care of the minor illnesses and injuries of...
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Vietnam Magazine
As my father’s 70th birthday approached, I combed through the stores, but nothing seemed appropriate for this man I respect and adore. How can any gift express love or devotion to someone who has raised you and has always been there to...
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Vietnam Magazine
The July 10, 1966, edition of New York Sunday News carried a story about the Ace of Spades, calling it “a symbol of death to the Viet Cong.” During that year and the next, similar stories ran in newspapers and magazines all across the...
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Vietnam Magazine
After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai by Heonik Kwon, University of California Press, Berkley, 2006, softcover $19.95. Death rites matter. Arlington. Gettysburg. Normandy. The Somme. Verdun. Each is a site...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America By Barnet Schecter (Walker & Company,New York, 2005, $28) The most violent urban uprising in American history occurred in July 1863, when thousands...
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America's Civil War Magazine
In a quiet neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, Ed Bearss takes walks near his house on a near-daily basis, often wearing a hat and offering a nod to passers-by. I know this because I’ve lived around the corner from him for seven years....
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America's Civil War Magazine
Welcome the Hour of Conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama Edited by John C. Carter University of Alabama Press, 2007, $51.75 Youngsters of limited experience and horizons found themselves hundreds of miles from home during...
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America's Civil War Magazine
To beat downtown D.C.’s sweltering summers, Old Abe retreated to a fashionable, breeze-cooled house in the ‘burbs’. The summer heat of Washington, D.C., has tortured politicians and residents of the tidal town ever since it became...
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Military History Magazine
Stephen Decatur was only a teenager when he wrapped his arms around a fellow midshipman who was too injured to raise his pistol or even stand to help hm continue a duel. The midshipman had faced two opponents and was wounded by both, but...
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Military History Magazine
In August 1946, Colonel Francis P. Miller, an Army whistle-blower who had been stationed in occupied Germany, testified before an executive session of a Senate special committee. “We have had the incredible situation in Germany where, as...
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Ask Mr. History
In their state constitution of 1776, New Jersey allowed single or widowed property-owning women and free black men to vote. This suffrage was taken away by the New Jersey legislature in 1807. Why? We’ve done a little research on our...
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Military History Magazine
Life is a series of challenges, obstacles and setbacks. And the history of conflict is chock-full of models that tell us how to confront our foes, live our days courageously and even stare death in the face when necessary. Of all fields of...
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Military History Magazine
A Civilian’s Guide to the U.S. Military: A Comprehensive Reference to the Customs, Language and Structure of the Armed Forces by Barbara Schading with Richard Schading, Writer’s Digest Books, 2006, $16.99. To the uninitiated, the inner...
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Military History Magazine
Recent history has seen a breakdown in a long-held societal taboo—the use of children as tools of war. Today as many as 300,000 children age 17 and under fight in conflicts worldwide. I was attending primary school.” The young boy...
