Recent Comments made by Clio, 41-60
Comments are a great way to add your own thoughts to things you find on Fold3 or add details that don't seem to fit in the body of a Memorial Page or Spotlight.
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“Iceberg right ahead.”—Frederick Fleet, Crow’s Nest Lookout
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"I had no idea I was writing history," Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above…
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“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.”—Chief Justice Earl Warren
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A Note on the Calendar System--At the time of the Russian Revolution, Russia still followed the Julian calendar system and not the Gregorian calendar currently used by most of the…
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“Ten days that shook the world.”
—John Reed on the October Revolution
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Fred Kenneth Moore, born 17 December 1921, at Campbell, Tex., enlisted in the U.S. Navy 31 July 1940. Onboard Arizona at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, Seaman Moore remained at…
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“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these…
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"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't."--Jimmy Doolittle
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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”—FDR’s First Inaugural Address
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“The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin, upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization, upon it depends our own British life and…
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"Never in the field of human conflict, has so much, been owed by so many, to so few!"
-Winston Churchill - September 1940
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Casualty statistics were hard to obtain accurately for D-day because many men did not land in the right place and were separated from their battalions. These men were considered…
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"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the word are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people…
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“For God and his country he raised our flag in battle and showed a measure of his pride at a place called Iwo Jima where courage never died.”
--Epitaph on Rene Gagnon's…
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“Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
--Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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"The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were." - John Conway
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Great Story Page. You should add this information to Peter Tyrrell's footnote page. Here is the link http://www.footnote.com/page/16252129_peter_tyrrell/
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Peter was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his service at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Utah. Because Peter had no living relatives, his medal remains the only award…
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