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The history of warfare; stories of combat and conflict across land, seas and skies, from ancient times to the present.
What People Really Mean When They Say Thank You for Your Service
On Veterans Day and Memorial Day, you hear it a lot. Your Facebook friends post pictures of themselves and their relatives in military uniforms, and the comments frequently include the phrase, “Thank you for your service.” It’s become the “have a nice day” of the new millennium. The number of people who sincerely mean it is questionable.
By Denise Shelton3 years ago in Serve
The History behind the Purple Heart. Top Story - August 2022.
In the US Armed Forces, the Purple Heart is second only to the Medal of Honor in terms of recognition. Furthermore, it is the oldest military award in the United States- but where did it originate?
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins3 years ago in Serve
Service Arranged To Pay Respects To Crew Of Salford Bomber
Residents of the city Of Salford as well as the wider community are being invited to attend a memorial service which will help to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Lancaster Bomber crash. Those who attend are welcome to pay their respects at the service which will take place on Sunday 31st July at Agecroft Cemetry on Langley Road, Pendlebury to honour the seven man crew of the Lancaster Bomber PB304 and the two local residents who were killed on July 30, 1944 when the plane went down following an aborted bombing run during the Second World War.
By Ashish Prabhu4 years ago in Serve
THE BEST GIFT
FATHER's DAY WAS THE BIGGEST HAUNT in and around our post-Vietnam and Philippine War-era household. Men had not yet returned from overseas military assignments to which they were drafted... forced to leave home and family, to defend oppressed populations somewhere on another side of the world. Some were held in P.O.W. Camps of Cambodia. Rambo and Swartzenegger were not coming to their rescue on or off film. Some were more distanced from their family's mental stress for worries at home and in-home in the absence of "dad" where mom had to struggle alone or under the glaring of taunting eyes and smirks because "mom ain't got her man or a man," and children waiting for an explanation of whether they had a father or not. Those who were not yet born when he left under orders of the government, could never claim to know who a father was. While family wrestled at home with whichever oppression befell them, "Dad" wrestled with the likes of Agent Orange and land mines. After the Korean War concluded some were further directed to the Philipines where so many endured the Death march... never making it back home until the happenstance of that nation relented and the fathers of America were let to come back home to what was left of family... if he survived.
By CarmenJimersonCross4 years ago in Serve
They Killed Her Husband. She Got Her Revenge
Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya (née Garagulia) was born in 1905 into a poor peasant family in Crimea. Indeed, destitute was an understatement, as she was regarded as a serf - a fancy term for slave. Coming from a humble background, she fervently embraced the growing expansion of communism and its values, as it gave her an education, two jobs, and even a husband.
By Chelsea Rose4 years ago in Serve
Slava Ukraini
As I sit here at my PC to write this on a sunny and fairly warm March afternoon in North America, I find myself at a loss for words. Nothing I say can take the pain away from those who suffer needlessly at the hands of a maniac dictator-wanna-be’s attempt to rebuild a failed Communist state. All those soldiers fighting through the bitter cold, watching their people get slaughtered indiscriminately because they are winning a fight brought to their doorstep and refuse to bow to a bloodthirsty Tsar want-to-be.
By Nicholas R Yang4 years ago in Serve
The Whole World is Watching
Freedom. What a taken for granted word. Freedom isn't missed until it is taken away. Freedom means being able to make your own choices in life, to come and go as you please, say what you like, and to raise your family and be with your partner in peace. The Ukrainian people are now in a position of having no freedom whatsoever. They don't even have the freedom to decide how to die.
By Denise Willis4 years ago in Serve
