The History of Memorial Day

Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared that Decoration…

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An Evening With Charlie Earl

Monday, April 28 Marietta 9-12 Project Meeting Guest Speaking: Charlie Earl Candidate for Ohio Governor     Born in Fostoria, Ohio, Charlie Earl was reared on a dairy farm in Seneca County near McCutchenville, Ohio. A graduate of Mohawk High School (Sycamore, OH), Charlie received his B.A. in English from the College of Wooster and an…

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NSA spying: it didn’t start with 9/11

The NSA, an enormous agency created to collect and analyze intelligence on foreign threats, failed to stop 9/11 and now spies on Americans. Has it outlived its usefulness? This article was in a recent New American magazine and it contains information that should be more out in the open. The amount of money these government…

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