Monthly Archives: July 2016
March 30, 2016
Service members who serve or have served in Iraq or Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve will receive the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal. The award is retroactive to June 15, 2014, and is for service members based in Iraq or Syria, those who flew missions over those countries, and those who served in contiguous waters for 30 consecutive days or 60 nonconsecutive days. The award distinctly recognizes service members battling terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.
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JULY 28, 2016 ~ VETERANS REFLECTIONS ~ EDIT
Vietnam veteran and self-published author Bill Graser has written a new collection of war stories told by local veterans.
“Veterans’ Reflections: History Preserved” tells the stories of 60 veterans, many of them living in Londonderry and Derry, starting with World War II and continuing through Afghanistan.
“I took their stories and weaved them into the historical overview of whatever conflict or war they were involved in,” he said.
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World War II was the last global war of the twentieth century. The United States-Soviet alliance of 1941-1945 was marked by a great degree of cooperation and was essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Without the remarkable efforts of the Soviet Union on the eastern front, the United States and Great Britain would have been hard-pressed to score a decisive military victory over Hitler’s Germany. In the Pacific War, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, India,
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NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND – REVIEWS OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ARTS
INTERVIEW WITH LOCAL AUTHOR WILLIAM R. GRASER
REBECCA SKANE NEW ENGLAND AUTHORS
July 7, 2016
Londonderry resident William R. Graser has recorded the accounts of 60 U.S. veterans in his new book Veterans’ Reflections: History Preserved.
Tell me a little bit about who you are and where you live.
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Keep rewriting until its perfect and employ an editor, any editor. Everyone makes typos and grammatical errors. I am no exception; it’s not a lack of skill or knowledge that’s to blame, just a tunnel vision that means glaring mistakes slip by.
Always carry a note-book and keep a pencil near your favorite seat. You never know when a new line or a great idea will present itself. Commit it to paper immediately, or it will be lost forever.
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Before World War II, intelligence activities in the United States was carried out primarily by the Department of State, Office of Naval Intelligence, and the War Department’s Military Intelligence Division. On July 11, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan to head a new office, the coordinator of information (COI), attached to the White House.
After the United States entered the war, Donovan proposed that the COI’s responsibility be expanded. As a result, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created on June 13,
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