We celebrate veterans day because, the date November 11 was originally celebrated the anniversary of the end of World War I. In 1938, Congress passed an act that officially created Armistice Day to honor the soldiers that who fought in World War I. It was also dedicated to the support the cause of world peace. In 1938 they renamed the day to Veterans Day. Congress approved this change on June 1, 1954.
Battalion History 1-503D The 1st BN 503D IN was originally constituted on 14 MAR 1941 and then activated on 21 AUG 1941 at FT. Benning, GA. On 02 MAR 1942 the BN began its initial training at FT. Bragg NC, following their training the battalion departed for the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO). On 5 SEP 1943, the BN conducted its 1st Airborne Op. of WWII into the Markham Valley, New guinea in support of Operation Alamo. This was the 1st successful airborne operation of the PTO. On 3 JUL 1944, the BN conducted its 2nd Airborne Op.
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day set aside for remembrance of those who have died in our nations service. Memorial Day was first proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, in his General order number 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868; when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. The South, at first, refused to acknowledge, Memorial Day, honoring their dead on separate days until after WWI. It is now observed in almost every state of the union on the last Monday of every May. Since the Civil War more than 1.1 million veterans, both women and men, have lost their lives in service to America.
Impact of Iwo Jima 1. Loss of Human Life The battle witnessed the loss of 28,000 soldiers, of which 75% were incurred on the Japanese faction. However, no civilian lives were lost, as they had been evacuated from the Japanese island prior to the battle. About a third of all United States Marines killed in action during World War II died at Iwo Jima, making that the battle with the highest number of casualties in Marine Corps history. 2.
Albert Snyder v. Fred Phelps On March 3, 2006, Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder died in Iraq in the line of duty. The funeral was put on by his father, Al Snyder, and held in Synder’s hometown, Westminister, Maryland. The day of the funeral, Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, decided to travel with six of his followers and fellow members of Westboro Baptist Church to picket the event. This group has attended many military funerals across the country, trying to spread their views. The Westboro Baptist Church believes that all military personnel are being punished by being killed because the military tolerates homosexuality.
Though that job position quickly ended at the beginning of World War Two. Paul volunteered to serve in the United States Navy during the war and was placed on a Navy ship in South Africa. He never saw any action during World War Two but was in a ship to ship collision in which Paul was ordered to abandon ship but disobeyed orders to save his men. Two hundred men died. After that incident Paul was honorably discharged and was given numerous medals.
The scene ends with endless pictures of graves and then the camera zooms in on the man’s eyes. After this close up the film flashes back to the war. It takes us to the scene where the soldiers who are on the boat are ready to get off then you see the soldiers are afraid, you can see this because they are throwing up and shaking. At the end of this scene the director builds up the moment by slowly opening the doors on the boat and you get to watch the soldiers being killed by the Germans. Then the director shows some excellent underwater footage of men being shot and killed.
“Isn’t it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn’t going to be room to bury anyone else?” (3) 2,996 people were killed during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the novel “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Oskar Schell’s father was one of them. At 9 years old he was forced to deal with the death of his favorite person in the entire world with no explanation of why and he was left to make sense of it. This quote describes how in depth Oskar thought about death after the loss of his father and how it affected him. It makes the reader think about how many people were actually killed on 9/11 but how the rest of the world stayed the same exact size.
My brother was only two years older than me, he being born in 1964 and me in 1966. In that time, I was only 15 years old, but I witness how Police Coastguards killed my elder brother: the bullet of gun fired the temporal bone of head; my father took him in his arm, the blood coming out a lot. My father shirt imbrued with blood from my brother. Police Coastguards dug a grave in sand and intend buried my brother without the coffin. My mother cried and begged the Police Coastguards to let her use her overcoat to wrap dead-body of my brother.
At a memorial service Sunday evening, President Obama will join the loved ones of the 12 people killed in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard in last week. “I'll be meeting in mourning with families in this city who now know the same unspeakable grief of families in Newtown and Aurora and Tucson and Chicago and New Orleans and all across the country, people whose loved ones were torn from them without headlines sometimes or public outcry," Mr. Obama said in a keynote speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Saturday night. Obama also acknowledged his failure to get new gun-control legislation passed. “That means we've got to get back up and go back at it, because as long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as