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 date chosen in 1868 by General John Logan, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic (our nation’s first veterans organization). In his famous General Order No.
(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 of slavery. He did NOT invent the telegraph. Nor did he single-handedly create the dot-dash text encoding method that bears his name. Samuel Morse, however,
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 the Baader–Meinhof Gang, went on a rampage that began with bombings and escalated to assassinations, kidnappings, bank robberies and shoot-outs with police. In the
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 were upon the alphabet-soup of agencies rolling out like new Model Bs off Ford’s assembly line: the AAA, CCC, NRA, TVA, FDIC. But designating May 22 for
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 iconic black Wall. We share Spring 2021’s version 39B with you here. ATTEND AN EVENT SUBSCRIBE TO VBC BULLETIN
By Todd DePastino (UPI) One of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War, and the most iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon, is an image of dozens of South Vietnamese being airlifted out of Saigon by a Huey Helicopter on the roof of the Pittman Building. When
