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But for the combat nurses who served there, the details remain as sharp in their minds as the needles they used to help patients heal. Like the tropical heat that greeted Marsha Four when she arrived in July 1969 at the 18th Surgical Hospital at Camp Evans north of Huế.…
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The Holocaust A genocide during World War II, where six million Jews and millions of others were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish…
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World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world’s countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used…
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The Dancing House, also known as Ginger and Fred, is Prague’s most famous modern building. Instagram is full of photos of tourists taking pictures with the Dancing House – and I’m sure few of them know that the Dancing House exists as a result of the bombing of Prague in…
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I thought all you Oilfield Hands and others would enjoy this. As a side note, during the War, anyone working on Oil Rigs was exempt from the Draft and was required to stay on the job as long as required. If a hand didn’t show up for work, the Sheriff…
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Today, the Equal Justice Institute (EJI) released a report about lynching in the United States between 1877 to 1950, and their research indicates that hundreds more of African American men, women, and children were lynched during that time period than previously thought, bringing the number of victims to nearly 4,000.…
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Unfortunately the suffering of the Jewish identity in these world for almost 2000 years similar to the one of Africans hasn’t changed, to this day those Hitler ideas still occupy minds of many in our sadly troubled world. When you listen to the so-called academics who publicly and unashamedly deny…
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and with the horrific scenes playing out worldwide of violent rhetoric against Jews, I wanted to take a minute to stop and remember the Ukrainian men and women who survived those tragic years of World War II. An estimated 1.4-1.6 million Jews were killed in…
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On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army and the inconceivable extent of the atrocities perpetrated by Nazi Germany came to light. The piles of suitcases now on display at Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum tell the story of the countless victims that walked through the camp’s gates.…
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was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who went missing in action during the battle of Iwo Jima while serving as a war photographer in World War II. He is best known for filming the second U.S. flag-raising on top of Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Genaust operated a…