Only 18 from his company survived Iwo Jima. Fort Worth area vet recalls the WWII battle
All it takes is a close of his eyes and Don Graves is a 19-year-old at the historic battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, wondering if he’d see his 20th birthday. “I remember the bullets flying all ...
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Underground Railroad site near Lancaster County to open to public this spring
Mifflin Farm, a 79-acre site in Wrightsville, has a lot of history. The Farm includes the Mifflin House, which housed ...
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How Women Enlisted as Men to Fight in the Civil War
American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
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Two decades after their deaths, let’s not forget the Wellstones and what they stood for
Their graves were mostly bare the day I visited — a fitting reminder of how the DFL Party has also neglected its traditional ...
Pieces of Our Past: The Snowden Memorial at Ellsworth Cemetery
Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...