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Virtual in 2021 due to COVID-19. You know it is almost Memorial Day in New York City when the Navy Fleet from the mid-Atlantic sails into town. Thousands of Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen share thei...
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International United Nations Peacekeepers Day acknowledges vital role of peacekeepers in the many hotspots around the globe. If war is the most horrible human invention, and it is, then peacekeepers are t...
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Cancelled in 2021 due to COVID-19. The 5th Invictus Games at The Hague, The Netherlands, are participated by wounded and veteran armed services athletes from 18 nations. The compete in 11 adaptive sports....
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Joan of Arc was a teenage girl who led a French army against the English, who were invading. She is said to have visions from God, and thus inspired an entire army of men to follow, not just a woman, but...
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The last Monday of May is Memorial Day in the United States. It is one of six major US holidays that the majority of people are given as a paid holiday, (the others are 4th of July, Thanksgiving Day, Chri...
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Armed Forces Day in South Korea marks the anniversary of October 1, 1950, the day UN and Korean forces drove communist forces north of the 38th parallel.
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Between 1572 and 1574, the Dutch and Spanish fought a war. On October 3, 1574, under the leadership of William of Orange, the Spanish army was chased from the city of Leiden, which had been under siege fo...
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In 1967 the Nation State of Israel invaded Egypt and took control over the Sinai Peninsula, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in what would be called the 6-Day War. On Octobe...
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Created in 2011 in Hawthorne, California, Coffee with a Cop has become a nationwide initiative designed to encourage and support community policing. National Coffee with a Cop day urges the public to int...
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Today is the 20th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington DC.
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Double Ten Day in Taiwan (and secretly celebrated in China by many), commemorates the October 10,1911, Wuchang Uprising, an event that lead to the end of the Qing Dynasty and helped to create the Republic...
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Marking the beginning of Cuba's war for independence against Spain, October 10, 1868. This is a national holiday.
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Each year, on October 11, Americans pause to remember General Casimir Pulaski who gave his life for American independence during the Revolutionary War. Casimir Pulaski was a Polish patriot and renown mi...
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October 12, 2000 the USS Cole, a Navy guided-missile destroyer (DDG-67) was hit by an Al Qaida terrorist attack, while harbored and refueling in Aden, Yemen. Seventeen America sailors were killed in th...
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Veterans have served this nation valiantly and attending to their health needs post service is one of the focuses of the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Veterans' Health Week focuses on the services avai...