A Hometown Went to War

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That is understandable, given what they saw. I did not know what it was, but the fellow with me said, 'That's a Jap plane, Jesus! Then I saw the Utah turn over.

Decades later, author Matthew Rozell tracks down over thirty survivors who fought the war in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay. He's looking at me from a crawling position. I didn't shoot him; I went and kicked him in the head.

Rage does funny things. After I kicked him, I shot and killed him. I had to use my helmet to keep bailing out, you know. Gower called us together. He said, 'I think we're getting hit with a banzai. We're going to have to pull back. They had naked women, with spears, stark naked! Army veteran, Saipan By the end of , fewer than , WW II veterans will still be with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform.

But why is it that today, nobody seems to know these stories? Maybe our veterans did not volunteer; maybe we were too busy with our own lives to ask. But they opened up to the younger generation, when a history teacher told their grandchildren to ask. I hope you'll never have to do it. Our POW camp tailor worked all night and finished our first American flag! The blue came from a GI barracks bag, red from a Jap comforter and the white from an Australian bed sheet. When I came out of the barracks and saw those beautiful colors for the first time, I felt like crying!

Army POW, Japan, As we forge ahead as a nation, we owe it to ourselves to become reacquainted with a generation that is fast leaving us, who asked for nothing but gave everything, to attune ourselves as Americans to a broader appreciation of what we stand for.

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Share your thoughts with other customers. The oil-on-canvas portrait, painted by George Bagby Matthews in the late s, is now part of a museum exhibit on Alexandria during the Civil War. A label next to the portrait outlines Lee's life and quotes him as saying, "There is no community to which my affections more strongly cling than that of Alexandria, composed of my earliest and oldest friends, my schoolfellows, and faithful neighbors.

In friendly Del Ray, a decidedly unneighborly dispute. Peeling back history's layers, exposing slavery's wounds. The chocolatiers and the white nationalist, coexisting in Old Town. Lee portrait is moved from hometown City Hall to a museum. This portrait of Robert E. Reporter covering government, politics and other regional issues in Arlington County and Alexandria.

An 18th-century plan for the city replaced the Robert E. The Confederate general was born in Alexandria. In friendly Del Ray, a decidedly unneighborly dispute Peeling back history's layers, exposing slavery's wounds The chocolatiers and the white nationalist, coexisting in Old Town. The story must be told. Although they would play a relatively minor role throughout the war, their Confederate guerrilla counterparts would significantly impact the Civil War in nearly every Southern state. In every section of the Confederacy, the guerrilla war took on its own shade and character.

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It emerged early on at its most intense in the Midwest, exploding in early in Missouri. It immediately became savage and barbaric, fought mainly by bushwhackers who behaved more like outlaws. In , Quantrill killed men and boys in the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, and in , Anderson led the famous Centralia Massacre, in which his men — including a young Jesse James — pulled 24 unarmed Union soldiers off a train and executed them. Unionist Jayhawkers would post an equal threat to Midwestern society as they preyed on secessionist families and attempted to wipe out the Confederate bushwhackers.

Guerrillas and partisan rangers in the east, however, focused their attention on harassing the Yankee invaders, and soon emerged as a real and constant threat to the Union army. These irregulars attacked Union pickets and small, vulnerable groups of Union men. They intercepted Union supplies, cut communication lines, destroyed rail cars and railroad track, carried out surprise raids, and often donned blue uniforms to invade Yankee camps.

These tactics frightened and demoralized Union soldiers, a phenomenon which came to a head in with the formation of Col.

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The efforts of guerrillas to antagonize the Union army were undeniably successful. In response, Union commanders tried sending out scouting parties to capture the guerrillas. These attempts, however, accomplished little. Guerrillas, who had the advantage of surprise and knowledge of the territory, were nearly impossible to catch and efforts to capture them only distracted soldiers from fighting the Confederate army.

Their inability to stop the guerrillas who continued to destroy Union supplies and kill Union men encouraged a growing dislike among Northern soldiers for the Southern population from which the guerrillas came. Union commanders began to hold civilians responsible for the actions of guerrillas, often by burning homes and communities, arresting civilian non-combatants, and in some cases evacuating entire counties.

By , the guerrilla war throughout the South had become confused, bloody, and disorganized. The Union Army had ceased to tolerate guerrillas, and met their attacks unhesitatingly with retaliation.

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