Over
one million Americans gave their life while serving our country     
...to create our nation, to save our Union, and to help free the world from tyranny.





       " Those who answered the Call..."     ~    " The 11th day of the 11th month..."



~ Remember 9.11.01 ~
    
    
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...and here ~ Remember the Heroes
~ Terrorist attacks against US
          





U.S. at WAR: 2011

Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom

Iraq: Operation Iraqi Freedom













   










Have you made your visit to "The Wall"?... click here
~ Forever Remembering Those On The Wall ~
"No politician...was more effective in the anti war effort than the late Robert Kennedy. He could speak eloquently against the war to a college campus and then stun the audience with a lecture on how it was inappropriate for them to hide behind extended semesters while young men from the ghetto took their place in the killing fields... World War II was a much different kind of war than Viet Nam. The perils to America if we had done nothing were obvious to all... Nonetheless, we can take from
World War II now a lesson, and still apply it to Viet Nam. Honor those who served and especially those who did not return... "   Tom Brokaw - NBC News


Vietnam KIA chart - click here









A Tribute to Bob Hope

The U.S.O.



                 





December 7, 1941
"AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT A DRILL."

U.S. ships attacked | Map: click here | Photo album
   WWII - Pacific: Chronology   Pacific Theater: 1941-1945
      Battle of Midway: June 4-7, 1942
   Four of the six Japanese carriers that
attacked Pearl Harbor were sunk at Midway.
  Soryu, Kaga, Akagi, and Hiryu were sunk.
              Midway video: 0:30
   Iwo Jima & Okinawa: National Archive photos
Normandy: Many markers 
   Okinawa Invasion: Video 1:47
   Hiroshima: Video 1:34 | Nagasaki: National Archive photo

   Japan surrenders: Video 8:37



Why we fight          

  Doolittle Raid: April 1942
  ABMC: Hallowed Grounds   



James Adlam collection: Veterans History  

USS LSM 90: Amphibious Photo Archive