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The Burke County Jail.
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As the Patriot defense of the State of Georgia fell apart in December 78 and Jan. 79, refugees ahead of the British Army spilled by the hundreds into neighboring South Carolina. The Georgia Backcountry was all the Patriot’s had left. As the British pushed an oath to the King on…
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Today We Remember Give One Minute Silent In Honor Of Jack W. Kelso.
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Thank You For Your Services He enlisted in the Marines, deployed to Korea, earned the Silver Star, and on October 2, 1952, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor . . . and he was only 18. Born on January 23, 1934, in Madera, California, Jack W. Kelso grew up…
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Remembering Walter J. Marm, Jr., a retired US Army Officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War.
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On 14 November 1965, he was a platoon leader of 2nd Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). On that day, during the Battle of La Drang, 1st Lt. Marm demonstrated indomitable courage during a combat operation, his company was moving through the valley to…
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This photo, taken on December 8, 1943, in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, shows PFC Homer J. Finley Jr., (U.S. Marine Corps) and his four-legged comrade “Jack”, a Belgian Shepherd of the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon.
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Together, Homer and Jack landed on Bougainville and bravely fought against a relentless enemy. During that short period, they always looked after each other, which created a special bond between them, but Homer was then assigned to other duties, and the two Marines were separated.Jack was later wounded by a…
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Today we pay tribute to Tommy Norris, Michael Thornton, their families
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“I lost an eye and part of my head and brain and had some other bodily injuries. I have another eye. You just go on.” From April 10-13, 1972, Thomas “Tommy” Norris, a 28-year old native of Jacksonville, Florida, who was an Eagle Scout and had joined the Navy in…
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On This Day 21-FEB 2008, We Remember a Fallen Hero
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Drew W. Weaver was born 5-JUL 1987. He lived in St. Charles Missouri and attended St. Charles West High School graduating in 2005. Drew and his best friend, Marine Corporal Ryan Hanson, joined the Marines together right after high school and went through basic training together. Ryan literally was by…
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Pascoe & Whitty – Britain’s penultimate hangings.
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Russell Pascoe, aged 24 and 22 year old Dennis John Whitty were jointly convicted of the murder of 64 year old William Garfield Rowe in the doorway of his house at Nanjarrow Farm at Constantine near Falmouth in Cornwall at around 11 p.m. on Wednesday the 14th of August 1963.Pascoe…
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Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet.
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Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet. Inspired to create a repertory ballet company with dancers drawn from the School, she also founded The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet and nurtured some of the world’s most renowned…
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Horse Attempted To Rape A Police Officer(pic)
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A police officer sent a wrong signal to a horney horse in the united states of America when the police officer bent over at event. it took another police officer to rescue the exposed officer from the rod of the horney horse. Analyst says the horse should be named after…
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Since Florida wants to pretend history didn’t happen, here is a random image I came across and its history.
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Hungarian SS guards, exhausted from their forced labour clearing the bodies of the dead at Bergen-Belsen, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves, 1945. The British were horrified by what they found…