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  1. Forty years later, James Johnson still copes with PTSD
    date 1967 to 1968map Asia, Outside UStags War, Health/Death

    James Johnson served as chaplain in Vietnam with the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division during 1967. Johnson never carried a weapon, but he was still exposed to the horrors that the soldiers and other men in his division experienced. “I was determined to go on combat missions,” stated Johnson, “I couldn’t stay in base camp knowing the guys were going to be faced with terror.”...

  2. Jacqueline Rhoads copes with ethics as a nurse in Vietnam
    date 1970 to 1971map Asia, Outside UStags War, Health/Death, Ethics

    Jacqueline Rhoads landed in Vietnam in 1970 at the age of twenty-two. On the day she arrived, Rhoads started her work as an emergency room nurse. She recalls the mass-casualty events the most. For her small unit, mass-casualty was anything more than ten wounded at a time. Mass-casualty situations often taxed supplies such that not enough supplies remained to save everyone. It was the code of the medical...

  3. Operation Crossroads:  Sailor Witnessed Atomic Bomb Test
    date July 1, 1946 to August 10, 1946map Camden, New Jerseytags Science/Technology, War

    At 0800 hours on July 1, 1946, the United States conducted the Able Test in Bikini Lagoon, the first of three scheduled atomic bomb tests that were part of Operation Crossroads.  Among those who witnessed the atomic bomb test was Joseph Patrick McShane Jr., a nineteen year old sailor from Oaklyn, New Jersey.  From the deck of a transport ship, McShane watched the blast, which was “I think about...

  4. Kennedy Hears from a Worried Soviet Premier
    date October 26, 1962 to October 27, 1962map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags War, Foreign Politics, Diplomacy/International

    Between 6:00 and 9:00 PM on the night of Friday October 26, 1962, the tenth day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the members of President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Committee of the National Security (ExCom) received sections of a long, emotional private message from Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev.  Khrushchev revealed the underlying logic of the Cuban Missile Crisis when he wrote, “I see,...

  5. Chamberlain's Defense of Little Round Top
    date July 2, 1863 to July 3, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags War, Civil War, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Gettysburg

    On July 2, 1863, Colonel Strong Vincent looked to Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine regiment to defend Little Round Top “at every hazard”.  It was vital for the Union army to not lose this hilltop position to prevent the Confederates from breaking through their lines. At Gettysburg, the 20th Maine and other Union troops took both Little Round Top and Big Round Top. They have become immortalized...

  6. Lewis Parsons Writes Home
    date May 28, 1864map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags War, Civil War

    Lewis E. Parsons served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War as a private in the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. During his time of service in the war, Parsons wrote around twelve letters that he sent to his family in Talladega, Alabama. Parsons tried to write a letter every chance he had some free time to himself. He specifically states in a May 28 letter “I write whenever I get a chance.”...

  7. Information Passed On: A German Attempt to Curb anti-Nazi sentiment
    date August 8, 1933map New York, New Yorktags War, Foreign Politics, League of Nations

    Over seventy-seven years ago, on the eighth of August, 1933, Dr. Daniel Mulvihill (a New Yorker) was assaulted by a German citizen while he was visiting Berlin, apparently because he had failed to “salute a Nazi detachment.” A few weeks later, on the twenty-fourth of that month, Dr. Mulvihill’s assailant was taken into custody by Nazi authorities, and was then deposited into a concentration camp,...

  8. A Day of Mourning For All
    date April 19, 1865map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Lincoln Assassination, Funeral, War, Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln's funeral took place on April 19, 1865. The mirrors in the Green Room had been covered and everything was black, causing a dimness. Over seven hundred people came to pay their respects to the late President. A person described the scene in the Green Room: “The remains of the President lay in the Green Room, in a metallic coffin. On each side of the coffin were four silver handles,...

  9. D.A. Mahony recounts his kidnapping by the Union Army in his book Prisoner of State.
    date August 14, 1862 to November 11, 1862map DUBUQUE, Iowatags Imprisonment, Civl War, War

    In the early morning of August 14, 1862, D.A. Mahony was aroused from his sleep by a man, representing the Secretary of War, named Mr. Gregory. With several Union soldiers surrounding his home and threatening to murder him and his wife if he resisted, Mahony found himself unable to escape his arrest.  Mahony was taken from his home by Gregory and the Union soldiers. The Democratic editor of the Dubuque,...

  10. A Disillusioned South
    date August 2, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags Medicine, Civil War, War

    A month after the vicious Battle of Gettysburg, a Confederate surgeon wrote home to his wife, explaining that the Southern soldiers had nearly won but chose to retreat instead.  Spencer Glasgow Welch’s words encompass the view of many of the Confederate army and its supporters at the time: that despite their lack of food, clothing, and decent shelter, there was hope for a victory against the Union...

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