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Happy Birthday to Hawkeye Pierce
Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo was born at New York City on this day in 1936. (The family uses Alda, a contraction of ALphonso and D'Abruzzo, as their surname for most things, but the birth certificates all use the original name.) He suffered from...
Happy Mauerfall!
It was twenty years ago today that the citizens of Berlin celebrated "Mauerfall", the Fall of the [Berlin] Wall. After almost three decades, East Germany had opened its borders, and the people in the streets took out hammers and started chipping...
Husband reaches top NCO rank as wife begins Army officer career
By Benjamin Abel USAJFKSWCS Public Affairs Office FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, July 16, 2009) - “Pete, you are at the apex of your career.  Jackie is our future.” The Pete addressed by Brig. Gen. Bennet Sacolick, the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy...
Remembering D-Day
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere...