Citizen Soldiers: Knox County’s Tradition of Service The Mountain Advocate Citizen Soldiers: Knox County’s Tradition of Service As Veterans Day approaches, we pause to honor the men and women who have served our country in every branch of the United…
Calvert County native and longtime Charles County resident Larry Johnson proudly displays both the bronze star and the purple heart that he earned during his brief tour of duty during the Vietnam War. Calvert County native and longtime Charles County…
Kuwait Times One of the women, Patty Atavis, stares intently at the camera with a restless girl on her lap, Anna Whitridge, in a 1848 portrait. Records show that Atavis was purchased by a doctor in Baltimore County, Maryland, at age…
Taken May 6, 1968, the black-and-white image shows a wounded Army cameraman receiving medical attention from a fellow soldier during fierce fighting outside Saigon. Grigsby was behind the camera that day, recording a scene involving two men with whom he had been…
Seventy years ago today, Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian uprising that had electrified Eastern Europe. Latter-day conservative narratives distort the true history of the 1956 revolution and the crucial role of workers’ councils in driving it forward. Workers build a barricade…
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And, as we pause next week to honor those who have served and continue to serve in the Armed Forces, it’s a good time to remember an aspect of Wilson’s life that’s been overshadowed by his ownership of an NFL…
The wall shows pictures of every person killed in World War I from Dubuque County. Leo Koster is one of the Cascade natives mentioned in The State Historical Society of Iowa’s World War I Honor Roll traveling display. The exhibit…
Vietnam War veteran Dan Cheney is retired in the Keys. Dan Cheney in 1971 in the U.S. Army. Dan Cheney is a local Vietnam veteran whose lifetime of adventure and service has literally taken him around the world and back. In 1968, at…
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