Juneteenth has passed if you look at the date on the calendar. Yet Juneteenth is important to remember as not a fixed date on a calendar but as a span of time. The emancipation of slaves was a process. Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery continued in certain areas like Texas, where the last 250,000
June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. This Day of Days would pave the way for the liberation of Europe. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious invasion in military history consisted of 160,000 Allied troops, 11,000 Allied Aircraft, 7,000 ships and boats, and thousands of other vehicles. According to the National WWII
Monday, May 6, 2024, marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, which runs from the Sunday before through the following Sunday. Yom Hashoah also coincides with the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar and marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April 19, 1943. It is
By Wes Sones This year, marks the 79th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled “Fortress Europe.” The allied landings have been dramatized in films like “The Longest Day,” starring an ensemble cast featuring Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Sean Connery, and Henry Fonda, to name a few. The landings were
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day has already passed on Fri., Jan. 27, 2023. This date marks the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration camp. Auschwitz was only one of many Concentration Camps used in the systematic murder of 6 million Jewish people. It is hard to comprehend or put into words the sheer scale of the
