UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

 
                The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses, used in the 19th century by black slaves in the United States to escape to either Free states or Canada.  The Underground Railroad was not literally underground and it wasn’t a railroad either, “underground” meant secret, and “railroad” was the hidden [...]

SAPPER MIKE McTEAGUE and the Wounded Warriors Fund

 
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Bike bomb kills 4 Canadian troops September 18, 2006 KABUL, Afghanistan
     Mike McTeague was one of the Canadian soldiers severely injured when a suicide bomber on a bicycle in Afghanistan blew himself up near NATO troops while they were handing out gifts to children.  The explosion killed four soldiers and wounded dozens [...]

MARTIN LUTHER KING

     Martin Luther King Junior was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929, he was an African-American clergyman who supported social change through non-violent means. A powerful speaker and a man of great spiritual strength, he shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
 
     King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist [...]

MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI (Mahatma Gandhi)

 
     Mahatma Gandhi was born in British-India in 1869, he was a major political and spiritual leader of India.  As a young man he moved to England to study law and after being admitted to the bar, he accepted a position in South Africa. While traveling to South Africa in the first-class section of the train, he [...]

Cpl Matt Dinning and Cpl Randy Payne

Military Police Support the Troops Pin

1 Military Police Platoon Association (1 MP PL Assoc) recently launched the
Military Police Support the Troops commemorative pin. The idea behind this
pin is to recognized the supreme efforts made by our brave men and women of
the Military Police branch. This pin recognizes our current serving and
especially our recently fallen members [...]

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 
     Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York, New York in 1884. She was First Lady of the United States from 1933-45, during the four presidential terms of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was active in social work and Democratic politics even before her husband became president. Eleanor Roosevelt was a new kind of [...]

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

 

      Sir Winston Churchill was, without a doubt, one of the greatest men of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a soldier, a writer, and (quite possibly because he was a soldier first), a Great War leader. Although he was an extraordinary politician, statesman, and Prime Minister, it is important to understand and [...]

FRANCIS PEGAHMAGABOW

 
     Francis Pegahmagabow was born near Parry Sound, Canada in 1891, he was the most highly decorated Canadian Native in the First World War. An Ojibwa from the Parry Island Band; he was awarded the Military Medal (MM) plus two bars for bravery in Belgium and France. Soldiers who had been awarded the MM and later performed [...]

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

     Aung San Suu Kyi, pronounced Un-song-Sue-Chee was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1945, she was the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for opposing the military regime in her homeland Burma, now named Myanmar. She went to school at Oxford University in England and lived a fairly quiet life until 1988 when she returned [...]

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

 
     Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts in 1820, she traveled, lectured and campaigned across America for the abolition of slavery and women’s rights.  She was one of the very first to fight for and gain voting rights for women, while refusing to submit to the many people who criticized and harassed her.
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