World War I medal discovered after nearly a century
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War reading list: Kurt Vonnegut (0)
War is often the backdrop for some of the very best art and literature produced. Many writers choose to try and get across anti-war messages in their work and few have done that with such incredible effect as Kurt Vonnegut.
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse Five has as its main subject the bombing of Dresden in […]
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World War I medal discovered after nearly a century (0)
A First World War medal has been unearthed in a field in Betchworth, Surrey, almost 90 years after it was first lost. The medal belonged to a soldier called Thomas Swan, who was so distressed by the war that he threw the medal from a train shortly after being awarded it.
The medal was then found […]
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A Touching Experience Visiting a World War II Cemetery (0)
Do you ever get that strange feeling inside when you hear about a disaster or the news or when you drive past a grave yard? Well that is the feeling I got when I visited the World War II Cemetery in Normandy. The graveyard is a memorial to all the American soldiers who died in […]
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A Touching Experience Visiting a World War II Cemetery (0)
Do you ever get that strange feeling inside when you hear about a disaster or the news or when you drive past a grave yard? Well that is the feeling I got when I visited the World War II Cemetery in Normandy. The graveyard is a memorial to all the American soldiers who died in […]
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