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Memorial Day Remembrance

Memorial Day Memorial Day is that time of year where we remember those who gave their lives to purchase the freedoms that so many have squandered today. For many Memorial day is merely a long weekend where we enjoy the onset of summer weather (not so much). However, for others of us, Memorial Day is …

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Boston University has failed Miserably

By Jim Johnson Alexandria Ocasio-Ortiz (Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Boston University): What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war. We had a direct existential threat with another nation, this time it was Nazi Germany, and the Axis, who explicitly made the United States …

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“We will accept nothing less than full victory”

June 6, 1944 – 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.  General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”