Tag: US Army
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George Washington faces a dilemma
George Washington faces a dilemma My own reference to American history begins with my birth only a decade and a half after the end of the Second World War, during the height of the Cold War. In my formative years, the Vietnam War caused a tumultuous schism among Americans, in part due to mutually exclusive…
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Treaty of Greenville
The 1795 Treaty of Greenville When I was five, my family moved from the small, rural town of Fountain City, Indiana to “the country,” roughly two miles east. The unpaved road that ran past our newly built ranch had only one other residence along its three-quarter mile, the other a small farm. The nearest paved…