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December 2024

1. Quiet Heroines: Nurses in Vietnam, by Diane Carlson Evans
We weren't always welcomed home from the war. But we were good at what we did and the patients knew we mattered.

2. Why Is the American Revolution So Important? Our nation is free because, 250 years ago, brave men and women fought a war to establish the independence of the United States and created a system of government to protect the freedom of its citizens. By Jack D. Warren

3. FDR’s War of Words with Lindbergh, by Paul Sparrow
Charles Lindbergh and the isolationists of American First opposed Lend Lease and Roosevelt’s attempts to prepare for possible war in Europe.

John Dickinson (right) stands off to the side among the statues of Signers at the National Constitution  Center. George Washington stands at the left before a table at which Benjamin Franklin sits. Photo by Edwin Grosvenor
John Dickinson (right) stands off to the side among the statues of Signers at the National Constitution Center. George Washington stands at the left before a table at which Benjamin Franklin sits. Photo by Edwin Grosvenor

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