tagged w/ memorial day 2008
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WWII B-24 navigator F.C. Hap Chandler recently reflected on his missions over Europe in WWII at a Commemorative Air Force Dixie Wing WWII Heritage Days held in Peachtree City, GA.
Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing hosted its fifth annual "WWII Heritage Days" April 26-27, 2008. The event was held at The Historical Airpower Facility, Falcon Field, Peachtree City, GA. and brought together vintage vehicles and aircraft, WWII veterans, guest speakers and reenactors from throughout the southeast to pay tribute to The Greatest Generation, the men and women who won the Second World War.
WWII Heritage Days is a community celebration that entertained and educated the entire family. The event included local actors portraying 1940's Hollywood stars, canteen shows, swing dance demonstrations, educational displays, and, the annual hangar dance WWII B-24 navigator F.C. Hap Chandler recently reflected on his missions over Europe... more
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Leslie Marmon Silko got the MacArthur Genius Award in 1981. Her brilliant novel CEREMONY (1977) weaves stories of Pueblo life, uranium mining,her own Laguna Pueblo, American Indian World War II and Viet Nam War veterans and Pueblo and Navajo ceremony, into a novel that is easily one of the 5 best of all time.
More at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Marmon_Silko
CEREMONY has vivid descriptions of American Indian rituals that reintergrate returning soldiers back into the community. Silko illuminates the central position of respect American Indian veterans and soldiers hold in tribal communities across the Americas.
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
for Memorial Day 2008 in honor of all the American Indian veterans and soldiers across Indian Country with gratitude for their bravery, service and dedication to protecting our people and land for tens of thousands of years since way before 1492.Leslie Marmon Silko got the MacArthur Genius Award in 1981. Her brilliant novel... more
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