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Month: December 2010

PEARL HARBOR DAY – THE START OF WW II FOR AMERICA

PEARL HARBOR DAY – THE START OF WW II FOR AMERICA

On this day,December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor Hawaii and America entered World War II. I remember the day very well. It was a Sunday and I was in grade school. It seemed like time stopped that Sunday morning because all of the adults were in shock. If you remember President Kennedy being shot in Dallas and the reaction of people, you know what the reaction was back in 1941 to the news. It came to us not…

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WORLD WAR ONE & CHRISTMAS 1915

WORLD WAR ONE & CHRISTMAS 1915

 War is a terrible thing and World War I was a disastrous war with senseless deaths and little accomplished. It began in 1914 and didn’t end until 1918. The main fighting was on the Western Front. There were about 100,000 British, French, American and German troops along the length of the Western Front in 1914. "The Western Front" described a line between land controlled by the Germans on the East and the Allies on the West. There  were miles of deep trench…

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