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Jun 7, 2019 · The fact that veterans' hospitals were full of men with serious mental health problems went undiscussed. The movies of the 50s and 60s did not depict the reality of war. "People did not want to ...
Sep 16, 2013 · Sept. 15, 2013. SALTILLO, Miss. — Soon after he departed Vietnam in 1970, Specialist James Copeland received a letter from his Vietnamese girlfriend. She was pregnant, she wrote, and he was the ...
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Mar 14, 2024 · A total of 12,193 children were killed between 2019 and 2022 globally, and a total of 12,300 children were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and February 2024, according to those figures. ...
- Who Was Calvin Graham?
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Like many who enlisted underage, Calvin Graham wanted to make a difference. Born and raised in Texas, his father had died and his stepfather abused him. He was in grade school when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Graham’s job selling newspapers and delivering telegrams on the weekends helped him stay up to date on events in Europe. He once told a repo...
Graham began shaving and talking in a deep voice so that everyone would think he was older. He weighed around 120 pounds at the time, but he dressed in his older brother’s clothes to look bigger. Lining up with some of his buddies who were 15 and 16, he went to enlist in the Navy. Graham wasn’t worried the officers would comment on him forging his ...
The USS South Dakota — famously nicknamed Battleship X, and led by Navy Captain Thomas Gatch — was where young Calvin Graham was assigned as a gunner after his basic training. In fall 1942, the USS South Dakota and Task Force 16, which included the USS Enterprise, shipped out from the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and headed to Guadalcanal in the Solomon ...
For his actions at Guadalcanal, Graham received a half dozen medals and awards including a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. But trouble arose when Graham’s mother spotted him in a newsreel. She wrote the Navy, notifying officials of her son’s true age. Graham served three months in the brig in Corpus Christi, Texas. The Navy also stripped him of his m...
May 27, 2021 · But on Feb. 18, 1966, Jones and her fiancé were both killed in a helicopter crash near Saigon. Her colleague, Second Lieutenant Carol Ann Drazba, also perished. The two women, both 22, were the ...
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Sep 10, 2015 · Aylan was an indirect victim of war in Syria. Since 9/11, U.S.-led forces have killed—directly, not indirectly--more than a thousand children in Syria and other war zones around the world. To my ...
333rd Field Artillery Battalion African-Americans captured during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. 12th Armored Division soldier with German prisoners of war, April 1945. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots in United States military history; they flew with distinction during World War II.
