Paris, France, Saturday, January 23, 1949: The “Flambeau de la Reconnaissance,” the VERY FIRST “Torch of Gratitude” to travel from France to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, U. S. A. was solemnly kindled from the Eternal Flame of the Unknown...
Paris, France, Monday, October 18, 1948: Shown above at the Gare Saint-Lazare, one of the French capital’s main train stations, are two SNCF workmen putting the finishing touches on one of the forty-nine “Merci Train” WWI boxcars of the...
Washington D. C., February 6, 1949: With Drew PEARSON, master of ceremonies of the Official “Merci Train” Welcoming Committe in D.C., his hometown, standing on his right, Vice-president Alben W. BARKLEY (left hand on podium), a Democrat from Kentucky, speaks...
Never again should hunger be used as a weapon – address of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Nov. 26, 2022 Opening address of President of Ukraine at the inaugural International Summit оn Food Security under Grain from Ukraine humanitarian...
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SF Sheriff’s Office @SheriffSF 17 Feb., 2020 Amazing profile of our amazing new Sheriff Paul Miyamoto. San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, the first Asian-American sheriff in the history of California, was sworn into his new position on Jan. 8,...
Tons of Toys Being Shipped to Europe. 900,000 toys, collected in the American Legion’s “Tide of Toys” program, are loaded aboard the SS American Defender in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for shipment from American children to the toyless children of The...
Atlanta, Georgia, December 13, 2016: Denzel Washington reads a book with his Mount Vernon, N.Y. childhood librarian, Connie Mauro. Atria Johnson Ferry/Facebook https://www.cbsnews.com/news/denzel-washington-helps-childhood-librarian-celebrate-her-99th-birthday/ OTD: July 4, 1776 – July 4, 2019 Dear Citizens of Mount Vernon, New York,...
Mount Vernon Public Library, New York. View of the Liberty Road Marker, a permanent reminder to Mount Vernon residents of their ties with the French city of Thionville, was dedicated at the main entrance to the Library on South...
The Kibler Family from Alsace, France sailing to America on the SS De Grasse in early Dec. 1948. Standing proudly “à la Leo DiCaprio sur le Titanic” with her older sister, parents and relatives — at the bow of the...