We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Prague and our river cruise through Germany, Austria and Hungary.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2016 @ 4:45 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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History tells us that we are overdue for an economic recession.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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George, a Purple Heart recipient, was stationed at Hickam Field in Hawaii during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He joined the U.S. Army Air Force in 1940 and served in the Pacific Theater during most of World War II, including the Pacific Ocean nuclear bomb tests. After 23 years of service...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Sunny skies greeted more than 200 people who attended the annual Veterans Day ceremony at East Carolina University on Nov. 11.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:56 am
By: ECU News Services
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Since the World War II era, workers have benefited from a rather large implicit tax subsidy on health coverage provided by their employers. Every dollar an employee spends from earned income is taxed, but every dollar spent on health care is not. Those who purchase health plans on their own lose...
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Take five minutes to watch this WWII Veteran tell his story
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2015 @ 12:47 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Seventy years ago on August 14, 1945, America and its Allies observed V-J Day, the end of World War II.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 @ 3:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Governor Pat McCrory signed a proclamation recognizing North Carolina's contributions to World War II as August 14-15, 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2015 @ 2:00 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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You have to love that “Greatest Generation” No only did the win the war; they kept a love of living and still show us how it is done. Check out this video.
Published: Saturday, July 11th, 2015 @ 3:56 am
By: Bobby Tony
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We seem to be trying to make America into whatever political party you favor. It is about time to consider the real part of July 4, 1776 . . .
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:43 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) delivered testimony to the National Commission on the Future of the Army in Fayetteville, NC, which outlined the severe risks of the Obama Administration’s proposed budget cuts to our Armed Forces, including severe cuts to Army end strength.
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2015 @ 1:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is too much trouble to leave the beach and go to a boring ceremony or small parade with old men giving speeches and wearing the VFW insignia. Those ceremonies signify the real meaning of this Holiday.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In the summer of 1918, five large German submarines (U-boats) crossed the Atlantic and operated against the lightly protected shipping off the North American coast.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2015 @ 4:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born in the small town of Godwin (Cumberland County) in 1900, David Marshall "Carbine" Williams was the creator of the M-1 Carbine, the U.S. Army's favorite semi-automatic rifle during World War II.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Historians and history majors among our campus community certainly remember the significance of Sunday's date - December 7. The date was designated by Congress in 1994 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. While we take time to remember our veterans and fallen soldiers on other days...
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 4:09 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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The stage of McGinnis Theatre has been transformed into a grim post-World War II New Orleans for the upcoming production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 6:53 am
By: ECU News Services
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WOW!!! I hope you made a personal copy for review at least 10 times! It is so full of more recent history. It is totally full of "history repeating itself."
Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Governor Pat McCrory ordered the POW/MIA flag flown above the state capitol in commemoration of National POW/MIA Day.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 7:51 am
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory will launch the state's four-yearlong Centennial Commemoration of World War I at a wreath-laying ceremony at the North Carolina Veterans Monument on the grounds of the State Capitol Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014.
Published: Saturday, July 26th, 2014 @ 1:35 am
By: Christopher Maye
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North Carolinians played key roles in the historic D-Day invasion that took the fight directly to the Axis powers and hastened the fall of Adolf Hitler.
Published: Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ 8:27 am
By: Christopher Maye
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With World War II imminent, in December 1940, the U.S. Government awarded $16.8 million in contracts for building one of the first military installations in preparation for that war.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 9:29 am
By: Tom Campbell
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ECU professor Alex Albright is continuing his quest to right an historical wrong suffered by a group of Greensboro college students who played an important role in integrating the armed forces during World War II.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:38 am
By: ECU News Services
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The deadline to pass the Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Congress to raise the national debt limit came and went, and no one blinked.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 @ 3:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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During World War II, the Nazis stole 22 million works of art. Those works included great masterpieces of European painting, sculpture, literature, and music. But a small group called Monuments Men worked to track down...
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We yearn for that bright future but seem unwilling to take care of what we already have. This failure to invest in infrastructure will result in lost jobs, lost opportunities and even lost lives.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 @ 5:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In understanding the symbolic qualities deep within the historical context of this film, one can make the argument that Director Stephen Daldry's adaptation of David Hare's screenplay of the widely read Bernhard Schlink book, is an important film.
Published: Thursday, July 19th, 2012 @ 10:51 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The Berlin Wall served as the clearest sign of the Cold War that divided East and West for decades after World War II. Vern Pike, a retired Army colonel who now lives in North Carolina, served as the first officer in charge of Checkpoint Charlie the night the Berlin Wall went up in 1961.
Published: Saturday, April 28th, 2012 @ 10:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In most wars the eventual victims are the noncombatants. World War II started differently.
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 @ 12:58 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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