I just wanted to bring you some good articles about Memorial Day as this holiday has lost some of its meaning throughout the years. Here are a couple of good sites that talk about bringing back the true meaning of the holiday.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080525/OPINION/805250324
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/restore-the-traditional-day-of-observance-for-memorial-day
General Omar N. Bradley is one of five US Generals to attain the rank of General of the Army, or five-star general. Born in Clark, MO., Omar Bradley would become a significant leader in World War II.
Believing that he would attend the University of Missouri, he was advised and took the entrance […]
Operation hailstone was a large scale naval air and surface attack performed by the US Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk. Allied victory over the Japanese on Truk helped insure allied air and naval superiority during the invasion of Eniwetok(which would allow the American navy to have a forward base for […]
From late January through late March 1941, there was a series of secret meetings between representatives of the United States Navy, the United States Army and the United Kingdom, held in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the secret meetings was to determine how the United States and Great Britain could together best defeat the Axis […]
In early October 1941 an Ally convoy (SC-48) consisting of 50 merchant ships was traveling through the Strait of Belle Island to the Atlantic Ocean. Due to poor weather conditions 11 of the fifty ships were separated from the others, including the ship carrying the Commodore. The remaining ships stayed on course.
On Oct 15, […]
The history of Veterans Day begins on November 11, 1918. On this great day at 11am a cease fire, or armistice, went into effect between the Allied nations and Germany; effectively ending “The Great War”. (We now refer to this war as World War I, but at the time the world could not imagine there […]