Whether they had been urban or rural residents, millions of World War
11’s GIs deeply absorbed values during their military service that
shaped their lives after the war. They learned discipline; discipline
day and night; discipline under fire, discipline in mud and snow;
discipline under the most dire and dangerous conditions. They learned,
no matter how impossible and threatening the situation, to achieve an
objective assigned by an Army authority: and this hard-earned learning
experience made all the difference in their subsequent lives.
So
thousands of them, especially those who had been educated/ disciplined
in the Army Specialized Training Program, a college program that was
later truncated, went on to towering achievements under the subsequent
GI Bill of Rights. Among those who served in World War 11 were two U.S.
Presidents, two U.S. Supreme Court justices, nine Senators, at least
six Representatives, as well as a raft of outstanding actors and
scholars.
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New veterans foundation!
Help the veterans of WWII? Yes! why not? I
have had quite a few correspondence over the years from veterans
wanting to visit their battlefields one more time but alas had no means
of funding such a costly journey. So I have been playing with the idea
for about a year now and I would like to see if there is something I
can do to help out. I will put this questions to companies here
in Europe to see if there is way to start a veterans foundation in
orderd to get these people to visit their battlefields. I do not know
if something will ever come out of this new idea but I will certainly
try but I need your help! Give these men a trip of a lifetime and let them come to peace with at least a part of their history.
Why not visit the funding page on this website to see what I want to achieve with this project? Click here
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Battery A previously forgotten battery has been uncovered and it is
about to re-write the story of D-Day. Military enthusiast Gary Sterne
came across the buried 40 acre site a few years ago whilst studying a
wartime officer's map of the area marked 'Area of High Resistance'.
"Not knowing where I was going or what I was looking for, I continued
walking across the fields until to my amazement I found I was standing
on concrete. I followed the concrete to the edge of the tree line and
discovered a bunker entrance... then a tunnel, an office, store rooms,
headquarters buildings, radio rooms, bunkers … and most importantly
mounts for 155mm cannons," he recalled.
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A tree known as the Anne Frank Tree, a 150 year-old chestnut tree that was made famous in the writings of Anne Frank's diary, has been saved from being chopped down by a Dutch court. Frank was a Jewish girl who was hiding from the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II and often referred to the tree as being "comforting" as she looked out the hidden apartment skylight. Officials for the city of Amsterdam and the Anne Frank Museum state that the tree is infected with a fungus and poses a public health hazard as they argue that it was in imminent danger of falling over. It had been scheduled to be cut down on Tuesday, but was saved after an emergency court ruling.
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They were at Normandy Beach, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Japanese Internments Camps, the Battle of the Bulge, and here on the home front, as women who earned their place in history during World War II. ”During the War Women Went to Work” is a new award winning documentary (Silver Telly ®) that focuses on the personal stories of the women of Washington State during WWII.
Many have heard about women pilots or Rosie the Riveters, but few realize how many other roles women took on during the war. The new roles they took on dramatically changed the world for the women of today.
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