Army Specialist 6 Lawrence Joel was born on Feb. 22, 1928, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He attended Atkins High School and joined the Army on his 18th birthday in 1946. During his three-year enlistment, he served in France, Germany, and Italy. In 1953, Specialist Joel re-joined the Army as an airborne medic. After assignments in… Read More Medal of Honor Recipient SPC Lawrence Joel
National Freedom Day By Josephine Smith The issue of slavery was one that had ravaged the newly born nation of America since her founding. With the Civil War ending, the Lincoln administration would put the final nail in the coffin for this practice which had caused so much turmoil in his country. Drafted by William Seward who… Read More National Freedom Day
Remembering the Holocaust By Josephine Smith 1940, the hand of the Third Reich encloses its grasp over Demark, the Netherlands, and Norway causing a great blow to the Allied forces in Europe. As a lion, so they consumed whatever else would satisfy their hunger for world domination. The growing Nazi Empire would go on to conquest the… Read More Remembering the Holocaust
A Voice for the People, Martin Luther King Jr. By Josephine Smith An activist, a minister, a speaker, a hero, a husband, a father, and a legend; every year we take the day of January 17th to remember this phenomenal man that lived in our nation’s past and helped form its present. But who… Read More A Voice for the People, Martin Luther King Jr.
By Gabriel Smith gabrielacrossamerica@gmail.com War is a mixture of brutal violence and a duel of the mind, one does not simply fight their way through a battle nor does one simply give orders. Both the mind of the officer and the might of men must work in unity to defeat an enemy of any strength.… Read More The Battle of Long Island
President Reagan photo by Michael Evans, February 8, 1982 Proclamation 5447 — Freedom of Information Day, 1986 March 14, 1986 By the President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan A Proclamation A fundamental principle of our Government is that a well-informed citizenry can take part in the important decisions that set the present… Read More News – Freedom of Information Act Anniversary
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