our city manager and the entire state of the city of Burnsville, to the families and friends of our fallen heroes," Kautz said to the gathered mourners.
In America, one of the opening acts of theRevolutionary Warwas to pull down a gilded lead statue of King George III in Manhattan. A crowd of soldiers and citizens toppled the statue on July 9, 1776 after hearing one of the first public readings of the Declaration of Independence [source:...
County to honor late heroes in tribute REDWOOD CITY Local public safety agencies will be on hand to read names of their fallen colleagues.FROM STAFF REPORTS
What is not in dispute is that this spontaneous action is said locally to have heralded the start of a 4-year period in which tens of thousands of people turned out to pay their respects to fallen servicemen and women. When it became clear that the bodies of soldiers were to be returned...
A tribute and encouragement for those who served in Afghanistan, from Vietnam Veteran Marine Colonel Keith Nightingale (Ret.). August 17, 2021 OK. Take a deep breath and put your mind in neutral. Yes-Afghanistan has fallen and we left a lot of blood there. ...
With its more than 10,000 flowers, the Floral Clock is one of the most popular sites in Frankfort, as is the Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a tribute in the form of a giant sundial whose shadow falls on the name of each fallen veteran commemorated on the granite plaza on the ...
Or, at least, crewing some of them – robotic drone fighters would be a tremendous boon to space soldiers, but the communication lag between planets and vessels in orbit would make the split-second judgments of humans necessary at times. Nah, I don’t believe it. In space battles, you’...
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ProPublica reported that a crowd of Iraqis gathered around the statue when American forces rode into the city center and asked the soldiers to borrow a sledgehammer and rope to pull down the statue. The statue happened to be in front of the Palestine Hotel, where dozens of international journa...