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On Memorial Day: We Remember

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was born on this day in 1917. (died 1963) It is Memorial Day. Today we remember …

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Thank you, Veterans

On this day in 1918 Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allied Nations in a railroad car near Compiègne, France. Fighting in World War I officially ended at 11:00 a.m. (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month). The war officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on …

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