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If you wouldn’t want your daughter to emulate the woman you’re with, don’t marry her.
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Listen up, Men! If you wouldn’t want your daughter to emulate the woman you’re with, don’t marry her. Why? Because the woman you choose as a wife will shape the future of your family. She’ll influence your children’s values, their mindset, and their understanding of what it means to be…
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This Camera Was Used for Aerial Photos During WWII.
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The Fairchild K-17 aerial camera, used by both the British Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force during WW2, had a 24″ lens and weighed a ridiculous 75 pounds (34kg)! One of the later models of this camera, the Fairchild K-20, was famously used to photograph the nuclear…
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The man’s name on the left was Horace Greasley.
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He was a British POW famous for escaping over 200 times to visit his girlfriend, a local Jewish girl. Why did he keep going back? Loyalty. He returned every time with extra food or other contraband to share with his fellow captives. Greasley spent 5 years as a prisoner of…
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TODAY WE REMEMBER AMERICA’S GREATEST HEROES
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TODAY WE REMEMBER AMERICA’S GREATEST HEROES — World War II veteran Ms. Millie Dunn Veasey, a military and civil rights pioneer, has died — just a month after celebrating her 100th birthday. A Raleigh native and one of six children, she graduated from Washington High School in 1942 and enlisted…
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First World War.
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This photograph from the archives of the League of Nations shows a soldier killed in World War I. The war raged for more than four years, from August 1914 to November 1918, and resulted in the deaths of more than nine million combatants. As many as seven million civilians also…
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Lest We Forget…
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The fighting Irish Lion Lt. Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne DSO and 3 Bars, 1 SAS Regiment, was a courageous and brilliant special forces soldier, and one of the most outstanding leaders of the Second World War. From the Royal Ulster Rifles, he volunteered for the Commandos and saw action in…
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Heroes Behind The Line is pleased to announce the addition of Andrea Welch Fisher to our Heroes Board.
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The board provides leadership for carrying out the mission of HBL. Help us in welcoming Andrea, and check out her biography below. Andrea Fisher is currently the Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator providing long term support to our military families of the fallen in Central and Southern Arkansas. Prior to this…
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When we got to that house, we were told that we were there for the sexual pleasure of the Japanese military …
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We immediately started to protest. We said we were forced to, that they couldn’t do this to us, they didn’t have the right to Doing it, it was against the Geneva Convention, and we never would. But they laughed at us, you know, they just laughed. They said they could…
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15 Most Brutal Rape Punishments Around The World.
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Rape is considered the most offensive crime in every society. Rape victims are often looked down in the society and had to suffer mental torture without any fault of her/him. This horrific impact of physical and mental assault often ruin the life of a victim. Different governments across the globe…
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Today we remember SP4 Larry Ralph Lalan of Weyerhauser, Wisconsin who fell on this day in 1968. Larry is remembered by his sister, Kristi Lalan:
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“Today marks the 55th Anniversary of my Brother Sp4 Larry Ralph Lalan who was KIA in Vietnam. The pain eases but never completely goes away. Such a terrible loss of 58,220 young Americans killed in a Conflict that never should have been. He was only 20 when he was killed,…