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This tribute is for all the veterans who have served their country, both here at home and overseas. Each one has done their best for us.
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day
november
2007
Added: 11th November 2007
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Posted By: Naomi |
 
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For all the heroes of WWII. For all those who cared enough about freedom to fight and die. Veterans from many countries are represented on this video. Thank you for all you did.
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world
war
II
veterans
tribute
Added: 11th November 2007
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Posted By: Babs64 |
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Serving in the Civil War was the defining period in the lives of most soldiers on both sides of the conflict. Not surprisingly, regimental reunions were held for many years afterwards. This is a photo of Confederate veterans meeting in McKinney, Texas sometime during the first decade of the twentieth century. The last major get-together took place in Gettysburg in 1938 where elderly veterans from both armies mingled. From all accounts, it was a moving sight.
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reunions
Added: 26th July 2010
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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A handful of surviving Civil War veterans from both the North and the South reunited in Gettysburg in 1938 to mark the 75th anniversary of that titanic battle. Here are some films of the goings-on. They are all heroes in my estimation.
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1938
reunion
Added: 11th January 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Remembering Home
Letters from home brought more than messages from wives and sweethearts,
for these young men it brought visions of home.
Of the simple, everyday things that were once taken for granted.
Photos
The Library of Congress
S.O. Fisher Collection
Lynchburg History Foundation
United States Army Signal Corps.
Music
Glen Miller
Moonlight Serenade
Stardust
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross
Thanks for the Memories
Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera Lynn
Snow
conceived and produced by Dale Caruso
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veterans
day
WWII
1940s
Remembering
Home
Added: 25th September 2008
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Posted By: dalecaruso |
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America Comes of Age - The Korean War
Like Lambs to the Slaughter
US defense spending had reached a modern day low. The military was ill-prepared and ill-equipped, those in authority embraced questionable doctrines.
From a post World War II soft life in Japan, with servants to wash their clothes and shine their boots, these American youth were suddenly uprooted and flung into harm's way. There was no "Remember Pearl Harbor."
The North Korean People's Army was on a roll. The North Korean People's Army had invaded the Republic of Korea in South Korea only 11 days earlier and overwhelmed the ill-equipped Republic of Korea armed forces. The North Korean People's Army steamrolled into Seoul, driving refugees and regrouping Republic of Korea Army units before it, clogging roads and throwing the countryside into a panic.
The invasion caught General Douglas MacArthur and his Far East Command and Eighth Army by surprise, despite recent intelligence reports that North Korea was planning for an attack on the Republic of Korea. General MacArthur had disregarded the reports, saying he did not believe war with North Korea was imminent.
The events that unfolded on the Korean peninsula some 45 years ago offer a telling reminder of what happens when a force goes to war unprepared. Disaster lurks around every bend.
Facing a force of 130,000 NKP soldiers, 3,000 Soviet advisors, a full array of heavy weapons, aircraft and the formidable T-34/85, arguably the best tank to come out of World War II.
American GIs fought bravely at times. At other times when confronted with overwhelming, numerically superior forces, they "bugged-out" to the rear, cursing their government for sending them to this stinking, God-forsaken place where human feces were used to fertilize the land.
Photos
The Library of Congress
The Korean War National Museum
U.S. Army Center of Military History
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Audio Clips
The Library of Congress - Veterans History Project
Wessel's Living History Farm
Music
Perry Como
Far Away Places
Aaron Copeland
Fanfare for the Common Man
John Williams
Saving Private Ryan
Omaha beach
Hymn to the Fallen
conceived and produced by:
Dale Caruso
For more information about the Korean War
http://www.army.mil/cmh/
http://www.korea50.mil/
http://americanradioworks.publicradio...
http://www.paulnoll.com/Korea/index.html
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/2...
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War
1950
Added: 25th September 2008
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