Devil Dogs: Hero Marines of WWI
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History Channel/Amazion ^
****Devil Dogs: Hero Marines of WWI**** For my Freeper family.... If you are moved by 'Heroes'....real Heroes.... and would like to spend one hour totally blown away by what happened at Belleau Wood France in June of 1918...you will not find a better, more beautiful done, more moving tribute than this documentary.
I highly recommend it. Semper Fi Challenge you to stay dry eyed. (From Comments) What an incredibly touching and beautiful story and such a fascinating tale of this man’s life’s work to bring to present day the stories and artifacts long lost in the forest on the battlefield...
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Today in U.S. military history: Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood, and "Don't give up the ship!"
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Unto the Breach ^
| June 1, 2017 | Chris Carter
1813: The frigate USS Chesapeake - one of the United States Navy's original six ships - clashes with British ship HMS Shannon outside Boston Harbor. After being mortally wounded by a sniper round Chesapeake captain James Lawrence's last words to his crew are "Tell the men to fire faster and [don't] give
up the ship! Fight her till she sinks!" Shannon's crew boards and will capture Chesapeake, taking her crew prisoner, but Capt. Lawrence's famous final words live on today. 1864: The bloody battle of Cold Harbor opens in earnest between Union Army forces under the command of Lt. Gen....
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Dogs, cats got better burials than babies as Church deemed their mothers were doing devil's work TR
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Irish Mirror Online ^
| Friday, March 10, 2017 | Pat Flanagan
The bishops saw them not as people but living sins who must be severely punished and the State facilitated that torture Catherine Corless at the boarded up site at Tuam Mothers and Babies home where there is now verified evidence of remains of a significant number of babies and young children being
buried. (Photo: Ray Ryan) The horrors of the Tuam cesspit cast a long shadow over any International Women's Day celebrations. And the Taoiseach added to the gloom by appearing to defend the nuns who may have dumped the bodies of up to 800 children in a disused sewer....
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