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“Iceberg right ahead.”—Frederick Fleet, Crow’s Nest Lookout
You said 09 Dec 2008 about R.M.S.Titanic Sinks - Footnote Page |
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"I had no idea I was writing history," Laura Ingalls Wilder
You said 09 Dec 2008 about Laura Ingalls Wilder - Footnote Page |
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“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above…
You said 09 Dec 2008 about Battle of Gettysburg - Footnote Page |
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“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.”—Chief Justice Earl Warren
You said 09 Dec 2008 about Brown vs. Board of Education - Footnote Page |
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A Note on the Calendar System--At the time of the Russian Revolution, Russia still followed the Julian calendar system and not the Gregorian calendar currently used by most of the…
You said 09 Dec 2008 about The Russian Revolution (1917) - Footnote Page |
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“Ten days that shook the world.”
—John Reed on the October Revolution
You said 09 Dec 2008 about The Russian Revolution (1917) - Footnote Page |
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Fred Kenneth Moore, born 17 December 1921, at Campbell, Tex., enlisted in the U.S. Navy 31 July 1940. Onboard Arizona at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, Seaman Moore remained at…
You said 04 Dec 2008 about Fred Kenneth Moore - Footnote Page |
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“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these…
You said 02 Dec 2008 about Audie Murphy - Footnote Page |
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"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't."--Jimmy Doolittle
You said 01 Dec 2008 about James H Doolittle - Footnote Page |
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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”—FDR’s First Inaugural Address
You said 26 Nov 2008 about Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Footnote Page |
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“The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin, upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization, upon it depends our own British life and…
You said 26 Nov 2008 about Battle of Britain - Footnote Page |
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"Never in the field of human conflict, has so much, been owed by so many, to so few!"
-Winston Churchill - September 1940
You said 25 Nov 2008 about World War II - Footnote Page |
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Casualty statistics were hard to obtain accurately for D-day because many men did not land in the right place and were separated from their battalions. These men were considered…
You said 25 Nov 2008 about D-day Normandy Invasion - Footnote Page |
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"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the word are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people…
You said 25 Nov 2008 about D-day Normandy Invasion - Footnote Page |
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“For God and his country he raised our flag in battle and showed a measure of his pride at a place called Iwo Jima where courage never died.”
--Epitaph on Rene Gagnon's…
You said 24 Nov 2008 about Rene Gagnon - Footnote Page |
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“Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
--Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
You said 24 Nov 2008 about The Battle of Iwo Jima - Footnote Page |
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"The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were." - John Conway
You said 20 Nov 2008 about The Holocaust - Footnote Page |
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Great Story Page. You should add this information to Peter Tyrrell's footnote page. Here is the link http://www.footnote.com/page/16252129_peter_tyrrell/
You said 15 Oct 2008 about Peter A. Tyrrell - Footnote Page |
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Peter was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his service at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Utah. Because Peter had no living relatives, his medal remains the only award…
You said 11 Oct 2008 about Peter Tomich - Footnote Page |
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You said 09 Dec 2008 about Kodak Picture Company - Footnote Page