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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…
Read MoreAn 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…
Read MoreNSA 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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