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Theodore Roosevelt and Veterans Day
by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
Roosevelt strove to promote peace by strengthening the United States.
Tag: "veterans"
Constantly With Us All: A Memorial Day Remembrance
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Memorial Day is a wonderful constant.
Remembering the Significance of D-Day
by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma
At 0227 hours on the morning of June 6, 1944, Lieutenant Robert Mathias saw the red light flash above the door of his C47 “Dakota” aircraft, signaling his men to get ready to parachute into a terrifying blackness that was streaked with machine-gun tracers and punctuated by exploding rounds from four-barrel 20-millimeter Flakvierling-38 anti-aircraft guns. […]
Playing Politics with Unemployed Veterans
by Ray Nothstine
Getting the U.S. economy back on a path to solid growth and the job creation engine jumpstarted is dominating the headlines, talk shows and policy debates in Washington right now. Many of the legislative prescriptions focus on the dismal unemployment woes of newly separated military veterans, whose rates outpace the civilian population. The troubling figures […]
