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For over forty years, wounded Vietnam veteran Tommy Clack has kept up-to-date one-page data sheets accounting for the all the KIA, MIA, WIA, and captured...
With the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US Army was in sudden need of skilled tradesmen from across the labor market. Blacksmiths and...
Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive Simon Ramos came into this world in 1932, one of twelve siblings. His childhood playground, all 566,000...
James Edward Hanger (Library of Congress) The first amputation of the Civil War came at the hands of a 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regimental Surgeon...
by Dana DelBianco (US Air Force) The Convair B-36 was a remarkable aircraft. But anyone with an even vague idea of what an airplane looks...
Todd DePastino “Contrabands,” escaped slaves enlisted in the Union Army, 1861-1865(courtesy Library of Congress) The Civil War ended slavery. But it didn’t do so everywhere,...
(American Legion) (American Legion) I somehow missed this an old news item about the discovery of a Vietnam War memorial outside of Philadelphia in Chadds...
It was originally called Decoration Day, and it was always May 30. Until 1971, what we call Memorial Day fell invariably on May 30, a...
(Daguerrotype of Samuel Morse, 1840. Perhaps taken by Louis Daguerre himself) He was a master portrait artist, a virulent hater of Catholics, and a supporter...
By Charles Nesbitt US Army Nineteen-seventy-two was a year of terror in West Germany. The Red Army Faction, a left-wing extremist group also known as...
When Congress created Maritime Day in 1933 hardly anyone noticed. It was in the First Hundred Days of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and all eyes...
For many years, National Park Service tour guide Allen McCabe has been producing the Vietnam Memorial Fact Sheet for anyone with an interest in the...
