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then committed suicide as they began their journey home; Intelligence Officer Louis Abel, who wrote just before he was killed in battle, “As the war goes on and as I come out of each engagement still alive, I think often of those at home and wonder if I will ever see...
World War Two killed more people, disrupted more lives, and probably had more far reaching effects than any other war in history. Eight decades on, some of the last living veterans have come together to reflect on and remember their time in the forces....
One of the things I adored about this tale was how it approached the idea of healing. Tom, the main character, was not only dealing with the trauma of war and his recent death, he’d also spent his entire young life hiding his sexual orientation. That, too, was a trauma he carried ...
“It taught them evasive ways to survive” is not how Tom Brokaw wanted us to look on the experience of American veterans of World War Two. But it’s the sort of bracingly brutal respect for honesty that makes Mary Lee Settle’s writing seem at times like a slap across the face. Not...
Electric Expressions, 2317 Veterans Memorial Blvd., #3 When: Business hours until noon Thursday (Aug. 18) New Orleans Restaurants: Accepting: Bulk food items and water to help feed volunteers and those in the shelter at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center. Also accepting clothing and shoes in vari...
‘We have even a worse time than the infantry, for to get pictures one must go into the hottest & even then come out disappointed. To get War pictures of striking interest & sensation is like attempting the impossible.’ He later explained: ...
解析 D 解析:推理判断题。根据第三段“Veterans Day is to celebrate the soldiers who are still alive and served in the forces at any time,during peace or war.”和最后一段内容,可推断出Veterans Day和其他类似节日一样,主要目的是表示对勇敢的士兵们的尊重。故选D。答案:D...
On April 16, military veterans will run to honor those servicemen who ran to keep the Boston Marathon alive. Eight teams of two, each representing one of the 8 cities and towns along the course, will hand off the baton from Hopkinton to Boston. ...
Eddie Rickenbacker appears in the computer game Red Baron as one of the Allied aces. In the 1999 game System Shock 2, a military spaceship is named the UNN Rickenbacker. Wings of War: Famous Aces features Rickenbacker's Spad XIII. He also appears in the World War I simulation game Rise ...