Mexican-born Silvestre S. Herrera (1916-2007) wasn’t even a U.S. citizen when he signed up to fight for the United States in World War II. As Herrera himself said after obtaining […]
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Rags, who became a World War I dog hero, was originally just a stray pup picked up by a couple of American soldiers in July of 1918. James Donovan and George Hickman, part of the 1st Infantry Division, had been celebrating Bastille Day in a bar in the famous Montmartre section of Paris, when they stumbled on what they thought was a bundle of rags.
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Dogs made the news regularly in times past. Two stories that took place within a couple of years of each other caught my attention: “Dog Falls 800 Feet, Lives” ran
At the start of World War II, the United States military had no canine corps so it fell to civilians, primarily led by poodle breeder Alene Erlanger, to organize a
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Henry Johnson (1897?-1929), served valiantly as part of the 369th regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters. On June 2, 2015, representatives of his National Guard unit were presented with the
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Slaveholding was still a way of life for some residents of Washington, D.C. even after the Civil War began. But in 1862 that changed. On April 16, 1862, President Abraham
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