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70First Female Buffalo Soldier - Cathay Williams
Cathay Williams (1842 –1892? ) was the first and only known female Buffalo Soldier. She was born into slavery and worked for the Union army during the Civil War. She posed as a man and enlisted as...
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85There Is A Vietnam Veteran Hiding In My Closet
How many American women served in Vietnam? The exact numbers weren't even kept by our government. How do they feel looking back on this unpopular war? My story is that of one woman who served our country and found herself locked in a self-imposed mental closet trying to keep that part of her life separate from the civilian world she had returned to. Will the same thing happen to women serving in our military today?
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77Why World War Is Better Than World Peace
The world could be peaceful if we really wanted it. All we'd have to do would be stop killing each other. That's it. World peace is the easiest thing in the world. The reality is that we don't want it. We...
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76The Miracle of the Roman Centurion's Servant
Faith can be an amazing thing. It can come at the most unexpected times and from the strangest of places. The longer you experience life, the more you see that what is expected is a laugh. Surprises...
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72The Army Medical Board
Ok so I was stationed at Fort Drum, New York, and deployed to Afghanistan for a year. While I was deployed to Afghanistan I had started to have problems with both knees and my hips after this one week where...
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6800 Index to Love Letters from Vietnam
01-Love Letters from Vietnam: Basic Training Begins 02-Love Letters from Vietnam: Processing Before Basic Training 03-Love Letters from Vietnam: PT in Fort Campbell Heat 04-Love Letters from Vietnam:...
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86What Females Should Know Before Joining the Army
The Boot Camp experience is also known as: Basic Combat Training, BCT (the Army loves its acronyms), Basic Training, Boot, and Basic. One of my preparations for BCT: chopping off all of my hair! I was...
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75Memorial Day Poems
Let the old men who send the young men to war stop and think long, and work harder for Peace, before affecting generations yet to come. Poems written about the reality of war from family, children, citizens,...
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75Soldiers, Dear John's, and Vietnam - Memorial Day After the Parades
I am a female. I’ve never been to war. I know only the stories told to be by those who were there and by the look in their eyes when they talk and when they don’t. My husband was a Marine. He had...
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73Operation ( Iraq and Afghanistan) Military Pen Pal
During WWII and the Korean War Americans were so proud of there military they would write total strangers a letter at least once a week, letting them know that all was well on the home front and supporting...
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