Most of us love going to the movies. Whether we are there to be entertained, enlightened, or to be exposed to other worlds, we love sitting in the darkened theater to “be told a new story.”
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Early Life Clara Barton (1821-1912) was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children in a middle-class family. When she was eleven, one of her brothers was seriously injured
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Virginia Hall worked as a spy for the Allies during World War II. She served overseas, and when the war ended, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. She was
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First woman to openly teach former slaves at a school in Georgia. Only African-American woman to publish a memoir of her work during the Civil War: Reminiscences of My Life
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On this 11-11-11, America Comes Alive honors our military.
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Rin Tin Tin likely would have been a German war dog if the World War I battle near Saint-Mihiel had gone differently. In September of 1918, the Allies broke through
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