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Month: March 2021

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National Vietnam Veterans Day

March 29th has been declared National Vietnam Veterans Day. The United States became involved in the war in Vietnam after the end of World War II but direct combat support and combat operation did not benign until about 1955 and ended officially in 1975. More than 58,000 American men and women gave their lives in…

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XVIII Airborne Corps Requests Letters

Requests Letters for WWII Paratrooper, 97, in ‘Rough Shape’ Military.com | By Blake Stilwell Kenneth “Rock” Merritt is a legend in the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He’s a World War II paratrooper whose battle resume reads like a history book of the U.S. Army: Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge,…


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