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On this day
“There comes a time when you’ve used your brains, your training, your technical skills, and the die is cast and the events are in the hands of God, and there you have to leave them.â€Â Dwight D. Eisenhower On this day in 1944, General Eisenhower gave the command to launch Operation Overlord, more commonly known…
Read MoreThe 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…
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