Category: Military
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Drums, Tap Dancing and Life Saving
I was a Private E-2 in the US Army in 1951, just out of my basic training, and had just boarded a troop ship in Seattle headed for Korea with a stop off at Camp Drake at Yokohama in Japan. An announcement on the PA said that Special Services was conducting auditions for musicians and entertainers…
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Memorial Day
Did you know that almost 40,000 Americans died in action in Korea and more than 100,000 were wounded and it wasn’t even called a war at all when it was going on? It was called a “Police Action.” More than 5.7 million Americans served during the Korean War that began in 1950 and ended in…
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Pearl Harbor Day
Where were you on December 7th, 1941? Now I realize that most of our readers were not born until years later. Me, I had been in downtown Detroit at the legendary Paradise Theatre being enchanted by the famous Duke Ellington Orchestra.
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April 10, 1970 – F4 Jet Crash Claims Nine Lives
As a member of a small group of broadcasters that served in Thailand with the American Forces Thailand Network (AFTN), we remember those who lost their lives on April 10, 1970, at Udorn RTAFB, Thailand, when a F-4 Jet crashed into the broadcast center.
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Progressive Veteran Organizations
Common Defense – Founded in 2016, Common Defense is the nation’s largest grassroots organization of US military veterans and the only one https://commondefense.us/that invests in the leadership of its members through training and deployment in campaigns that connect directly to their history of service, including voting rights, climate justice, and anti-militarism. Common Defense’s family of…