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High school graduate with coat signed by classmates 1920s
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Anti-MLK/Civil rights cartoon from 'The Birmingham News' paper. c.~1960s
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U.S. Army Sergeant Timothy Hennis appears in court on charges of raping and murdering a woman, and killing two of her young children present. He was sentenced to death, but acquitted at a retrial. Nearly 20 years later, DNA evidence confirmed his guilt, North Carolina, 1985 .
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Propaganda Pamphlet dropped on UN troops during the Korean war 1950-1953
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Army nurses soak up the sun next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun aboard a US Coast Guard troop ship returning from Europe, 1945. Said nurse Clara Hensley, “After years of chaos, the sun felt like a victory hug — all I recalled thinking is 'we're going home!'"
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80 years ago today, General Patton during a welcome home parade in Los Angeles - June 9, 1945
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