Memorial Day
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EDITORIAL: Enjoy Memorial Day But Don’t Party Like 1999
With the coronavirus pandemic still bringing sickness and death to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, Memorial Day observances —…
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EDITORIAL: Make Memorial Day More Than Just a Day for Cookouts
When our country pauses on Monday, May 28 to observe Memorial Day, an annual day during which we decorate the…
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Prince George’s Event Honors Service Members on Veterans Day
Curtis Parker of Glenarden, Maryland, served in the Air Force from 1952 to 1961, including a three-year stint in the…
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African-American Union Army Soldiers Died on Their Way Home from War; Then History Lost Their Names
Mary Delach Leonard, ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Public Radio) — The elm and oak trees…
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Who Held the First Memorial Day Celebration?
Michael W. Twitty, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — African Americans have fought and died for America from its earliest…
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Time to Consider Impeaching Obama
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Throughout history every civilization owes its existence to its military. Societies exist because they…
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