Author: Captain Vazquez-Rodriguez
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456734512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Many Puerto Rican were classified by their superiors as inferior in the 65th Infantry in Korea, but they proved themselves in the battlefied as courageous soldiers because of their pride in the United states of America and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This book salutes the brave men of the 65th Infantry and the resiliency of the Korean people amid the destruction of their country and the suffering of their people.
Proud to Serve My Country
Author: Captain Vazquez-Rodriguez
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456734512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Many Puerto Rican were classified by their superiors as inferior in the 65th Infantry in Korea, but they proved themselves in the battlefied as courageous soldiers because of their pride in the United states of America and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This book salutes the brave men of the 65th Infantry and the resiliency of the Korean people amid the destruction of their country and the suffering of their people.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456734512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Many Puerto Rican were classified by their superiors as inferior in the 65th Infantry in Korea, but they proved themselves in the battlefied as courageous soldiers because of their pride in the United states of America and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This book salutes the brave men of the 65th Infantry and the resiliency of the Korean people amid the destruction of their country and the suffering of their people.
Afghan Journal
Author: Jeff Courter
Publisher: Afghan Journal (the book)
ISBN: 1438259662
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Journey to a remote combat zone in Afghanistan with Sergeant First Class Jeff Courter, as he leaves his civilian family life in suburban Chicago and trains Eastern Afghan Border Police to defend their own turf.Learn through words and pictures how the U.S. Army struggles to bring stability to a region where fear and poverty rule. And discover how one man searches his soul to reconcile personal, professional and spiritual challenges, while striving to bring progress to this desperate and dangerous corner of the world.SELF-PUBLISHING REVIEW says AFGHAN JOURNAL is: "COMPELLING...honest, earnest and unassuming...""...A thoughtful and thought-provoking perspective on the Afghanistan War...""...Jeff Courter deserves to be heard and heeded...BUY THE BOOK and read it!"READ AN EXCERPT & other reviews at the book website: www.afghanistan-journal.com.VETERANS THANK-YOU DONATION: For each book sold, $2 goes to organizations that help wounded/fallen Afghan War vets and families.
Publisher: Afghan Journal (the book)
ISBN: 1438259662
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Journey to a remote combat zone in Afghanistan with Sergeant First Class Jeff Courter, as he leaves his civilian family life in suburban Chicago and trains Eastern Afghan Border Police to defend their own turf.Learn through words and pictures how the U.S. Army struggles to bring stability to a region where fear and poverty rule. And discover how one man searches his soul to reconcile personal, professional and spiritual challenges, while striving to bring progress to this desperate and dangerous corner of the world.SELF-PUBLISHING REVIEW says AFGHAN JOURNAL is: "COMPELLING...honest, earnest and unassuming...""...A thoughtful and thought-provoking perspective on the Afghanistan War...""...Jeff Courter deserves to be heard and heeded...BUY THE BOOK and read it!"READ AN EXCERPT & other reviews at the book website: www.afghanistan-journal.com.VETERANS THANK-YOU DONATION: For each book sold, $2 goes to organizations that help wounded/fallen Afghan War vets and families.
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race
Author: Brenda L. Moore
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814755877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas. While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African-American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the black press, and even President Roosevelt, the U.S. War Department was forced to deploy African-American women to the European theater in 1945. African-American women, having succeeded, through their own activism and political ties, in their quest to shape their own lives, answered the call from all over the country, from every socioeconomic stratum. Stationed in France and England at the end of World War II, the 6888th brought together women like Mary Daniel Williams, a cook in the 6888th who signed up for the Army to escape the slums of Cleveland and to improve her ninth-grade education, and Margaret Barnes Jones, a public relations officer of the 6888th, who grew up in a comfortable household with a politically active mother who encouraged her to challenge the system. Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these African-American women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispell bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant in the 6888th, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the United States as a confirmation that we were full- fledged citizens." Filled with compelling personal testimony based on extensive interviews, To Serve My Country is the first book to document the lives of these courageous pioneers. It reveals how their Army experience affected them for the rest of their lives and how they, in turn, transformed the U.S. military forever.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814755877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas. While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African-American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the black press, and even President Roosevelt, the U.S. War Department was forced to deploy African-American women to the European theater in 1945. African-American women, having succeeded, through their own activism and political ties, in their quest to shape their own lives, answered the call from all over the country, from every socioeconomic stratum. Stationed in France and England at the end of World War II, the 6888th brought together women like Mary Daniel Williams, a cook in the 6888th who signed up for the Army to escape the slums of Cleveland and to improve her ninth-grade education, and Margaret Barnes Jones, a public relations officer of the 6888th, who grew up in a comfortable household with a politically active mother who encouraged her to challenge the system. Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these African-American women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispell bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant in the 6888th, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the United States as a confirmation that we were full- fledged citizens." Filled with compelling personal testimony based on extensive interviews, To Serve My Country is the first book to document the lives of these courageous pioneers. It reveals how their Army experience affected them for the rest of their lives and how they, in turn, transformed the U.S. military forever.
Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood
Author: Valerie Pfundstein
Publisher: Pfun-Omenal Stories
ISBN: 9780578135106
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
Publisher: Pfun-Omenal Stories
ISBN: 9780578135106
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992-1993
Author: Bush, George
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Air Bridge
Author: United States. Air Force Reserve. Air Refueling Wing, 927th
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air bases
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air bases
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Protect & Serve
Author: Joe Kaupa
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499037406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This is a true story of the life of a young man growing up in rural Southeastern Minnesota, graduating from Plainview High School, joining the military immediately after graduation, getting married to his childhood sweetheart, starting to raise a family and getting his orders to Vietnam. The book tells the story of his long year in Vietnam and what he and his fellow Vietnam Brothers went through. The final part of the story tells of his twenty-nine years as a law enforcement officer in rural Minnesota and the true experiences that he dealt with--the sadness, the pain, and the stress-- Dangerous situations that not only happen in big cities, but also in small rural cities also. Readers will have a better understanding of what the Vietnam soldier went through and what a police officer and his family goes through each and every day. After reading this book, they will have a greater respect for the men and women that wear the badge. This is a true story, I know, because this is my story.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499037406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This is a true story of the life of a young man growing up in rural Southeastern Minnesota, graduating from Plainview High School, joining the military immediately after graduation, getting married to his childhood sweetheart, starting to raise a family and getting his orders to Vietnam. The book tells the story of his long year in Vietnam and what he and his fellow Vietnam Brothers went through. The final part of the story tells of his twenty-nine years as a law enforcement officer in rural Minnesota and the true experiences that he dealt with--the sadness, the pain, and the stress-- Dangerous situations that not only happen in big cities, but also in small rural cities also. Readers will have a better understanding of what the Vietnam soldier went through and what a police officer and his family goes through each and every day. After reading this book, they will have a greater respect for the men and women that wear the badge. This is a true story, I know, because this is my story.
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1996: Corporation for National and Community Service
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Heavy Wheel Vehicle Mechanic
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanics (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanics (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description