“The Circle of Trees ceremony, held at the Valley Forge Freedom’s Foundation grounds, is an annual remembrance of the 13 Marines who were killed, in a training exercise in Vietnam on March 28, 1967”
https://www.freedomsfoundation.org/1968-marine-circle-of-trees/
“As we celebrate our MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY, let us look forward to future challenges – whatever they may be – and reaffirm our pledge to be America’s premier crisis response force, to be the first to fight…..always ready for the toughest and most challenging assignments. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES and SEMPER FIDELIS !”
“On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked 4 aircraft and deliberately crashed two into the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and a fourth crashing into the ground in Western Pennsylvania. There were a total of 2977 killed which included the 19 hijackers. 265 passengers on four aircraft, 2606 in the World Trade Center buildings and 125 at the Pentagon and over 6000 injured”.
”On October 23, 1983, two suicide truck bombs carrying 2000 pounds of explosives struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon housing American and French service members. There mission was a peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. 241 U.S. Military personnel mostly United States Marines were killed. Two miles away that same morning 58 French soldiers were killed in their barracks in a separate terrorist attack”.
“Vietnam War (1954 – 1975), the human costs of this long conflict were harsh for all involved. Estimates of war dead were over 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters and between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese fighters. The United States killed and missing are at 58,479 and 304,000 wounded (at least 100 are those of servicemen who were Canadian citizens.) Amputations or crippling wounds were 300 percent higher than in WWII. 75,000 Vietnam Veterans are severely disabled. Other countries that fought for South Vietnam were South Korea (4000+ dead), Thailand (350 dead), Australia (500 dead) and New Zealand (36 dead). While Veterans of WWII prospered, Vietnam Veterans suffered economically after coming home”.
“WORLD WAR II was fought between the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) and the Allied Powers (Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France)..it was the deadliest War in all of human history with an estimated 70 million people killed. Civilian deaths totaled about 50 million, Military deaths from all causes totaled 21-25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. Many of the civilian deaths were as a result of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass bombings, disease, and starvation”.
“The Korean War (1950-1953), World War II divided Korea into a Communist northern half and an American-occupied southern half at the 38th parallel. Nearly 5 million people died. More than half of these were civilians. Almost 40,000 Americans died in action in Korea and more than 100,000 were wounded”.
”The American Civil War (1861-1865), The American Civil War was a Civil war fought in the United States between the North and the South. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War. These casualties exceed the nation’s loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam”.
“My HEROES are those who risk their lives everyday to protect our world and make it a better place – members of our armed forces, police and firefighters.”
“ They fought for our country They gave their live, take a moment to remember them For all their strive Salute to them, HAPPY VETERANS DAY!”
NEVER FORGET OUR POW’S AND MIA’S WHO CANNOT BE WITH THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS .
“December 7, 1941, a date which will live in Infamy” . President Franklin D. Roosevelt
”No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American People in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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