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Redeployment was published in March 2014. On Book Marks, the book received a "rave" consensus, based on twelve critic reviews: ten "rave" and two "positive". [10] On the May/June 2014 issue of Bookmarks, the book received (4.0 out of 5) stars, with the critical summary saying, "Gritty, derisive, hilarious, and sad, these stories flow "from ferocious realism to more meditative ruminations to ...
[18] [16] The most famous and well known of the speeches occurred on 5 June 1944, the day before D-Day. [19] Though he was unaware of the actual date for the beginning of the invasion of Europe (as the Third Army was not part of the initial landing force), [ 14 ] Patton used the speech as a motivational device to excite the men under his ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
June 6 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. We must remember the sacrifices our service members made to defend our freedom and security. What America’s fallen military heroes can teach us on the ...
The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up.
Be Ye Men of Valour was a wartime speech made in a BBC broadcast on 19 May 1940 by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill.It was his first speech to the nation as Prime Minister, and came nine days after his appointment, during the Battle of France in the second year of World War II.
Biden spoke for 20 minutes under sunny skies at the U.S Military Academy's commencement ceremony, with 1,036 graduating cadets seated before him in dress grey uniforms on the football field at ...
Fewer than 1% of U.S. adults currently serve in the military. Fewer than 10% are veterans. These dwindling percentages are representative of the modern era: One in which citizens aren’t being ...