U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Chester Nez receives an American flag from Pfc. Tiffany Boyd, at Code Talker Hall, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., April 4, 2014. The flag was flown over the Marine Corps War Memorial, on the first day of spring in honor of Cpl. Nez’s attendance at the Platoon 382 Hall rededication. Cpl. Nez is the last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kathryn K Bynum/Released)
The Operation Red Wings Bracelet
via: Bands For Arms, G+
Made with a service member’s uniform button and 550 paracord derived from Fort Benning, GA, packaged in an Operational Red Wing map printed package.
Operation Red Wings (often incorrectly called “Operation Redwing” and/or “Operation Red Wing“) was a combined / joint military operation during the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) in the Pech District of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province, on the slopes of a mountain named Sawtalo Sar, approximately 20 miles west of Kunar’s provincial capital of Asadabad, in late June through mid-July 2005. Continue their story
The Armed Forces Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia is on a river that for more than 200 years carried servicemen off to war and returned them home to loved ones. Within the memorial are 20 inscriptions from letters written home by US service members who lost their life in war. The letters have been cast in thin sheets of bronze and are scattered across the memorial as if blown there by the wind. From the Revolutionary War through the Gulf War, each conflict is represented. Go to gallery
In every American war from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, military men and women captured the horror, pathos and intensity of warfare by writing letters home. Many of them were still teenagers at the time. Taken together, the letters form an epic record of wartime events. Read individually, they reveal the deep emotions of people in the midst of a unique — and terrible — experience. Read the letters
At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option. Continue reading
Maiden on the Midway 
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