Of Special Interest
Black History Month
Black History Month
African American Inventors
Exploring African American Issues on the We
Presidents Day
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
George W. Bush
Valentines Day
"Letters From the Heart"
Send valentines to our deployed service members
Thanks to Marilyn for bringing the following items to my attention.
Please click on the link below to read some very special stories.
Special Stories
Last Month in History
Desert Storm 10 Years Ago
{My apologies for missing this one last month}
January 16, 1991
The air war started Jan 17 at 2:38 a.m. (local time) or January 16 at 6:38PM EST
due to an 8 hour time difference, with an Apache helicopter attack.
US warplanes attack Baghdad, Kuwait and other military targets in Iraq.
January 30, 1991
- US forces in the Gulf exceed 500,000
Desert Storm.com
This Month in History
Feb 1, 1862 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was first published in "Atlantic Monthly".
The lyric was the work of Julia Ward
Howe.
About the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Feb 4, 1941
The Salvation Army, the YMCA and YWCA, the National Catholic Community Services, the National Travelers Aid Association and the National Jewish Welfare Board pooled their resources, at the request of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to form a new organization. The United Service Organizations (USO) was created to provide unduplicated
recreational services to members of the U.S. Armed Forces who were on leave.
USO – United Service Organization
Feb 6, 1987
President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day, adding another year to the record of being the oldest U.S.
President in history. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had been the previous recordholder, by serving the country from the
Oval Office at age 70.
The American Experience/Featured Presidents
Feb 8, 1918 In February, 1918 the army established the Stars and Stripes,
the weekly newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces.
American Expeditionary Force
Harold Ross, Editor, Stars and Stripes.
Feb 11, 1943
General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
The General’s efforts in World War II made him so popular that he was elected
President of the United States less than a decade later.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Early Career
Feb 23, 1945
**Four days of bitter battle had taken its toll on the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division of the U.S. Marines. Although losses were heavy, the Marine platoon succeeded in its mission to neutralize the defenses and scale the heavily fortified Mount Surabachi. The volcanic peak, at the southern tip of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, was one of the first objectives of the Marines’ invasion of this small, strategic island, 750 miles south of Tokyo. Victory was triumphant -- as the famous photograph (by Joe Rosenthal) of these Marines raising the American flag portrayed. Navy Secretary Forrestal was standing on the beachhead below. When he saw Old Glory waving in the breeze, he told Lt. General Holland M. Smith, “The raising of that flag on Surabachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.”
Iwo Jima
**Info courtesy of Those Were The Days, Today in History
February 28, 1983The final episode of "M*A*S*H", entitled "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" aired on this day.
The Korean War As a Turning Point in History
Innovations of the Korean War
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
His work as "Director of the Surgical Consultants Division in the Surgeon General's Office
Thanks led to the invention of mobile army surgical hospital units (MASH units)"
MASH Procedures in Korean War Still in Use Today
The 4077th MASH Homepage
Trivia for this Month
The Continental Congress left no documentation as to why it chose the colors of the American flag. Legend has it unofficially that George Washington interpreted the elements of the flag this way: the stars represented the sky, the red was from the British flag's colors, and the white stripes signified the secession from the home country of England.
Symbols of U.S. Government: The Flag
Abraham Lincoln considered his Gettysburg Address “a flat failure.”
Gettysburg Address
Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
Words to Remember
We must learn together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
- George Washington - 1790
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
- Abraham Lincoln - 1862
...You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise....
-- Maya Angelou
 | "Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." ...Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
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