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01/19/2024

Congrats to active duty Servicemember and Miss America Madison Marsh!

Madison Marsh is equally at home in sequins or a flight suit.

11/12/2023

Happy Veterans Day

06/20/2023

Pride.

Leonard Matlovich is buried in the Congressional Cemeteray beneath a grave stone that reads, “A Gay Vietnam Veteran.”

06/20/2023

100-year-old Black Marine Veteran seeks purple heart

Decades after Lee Vernon Newby Jr. was one of the first Black recruits to break the color barrier in the Marine Corps, he and his family are still fighting for recognition.

05/25/2023

"I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call 'policing the area.' That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area, and I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area, then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed." - Willie Nelson
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rock-stars-in-military

04/25/2023

The late Harry Belafonte's nonprofit SANKOFA educates, motivates, and activates artists and allies in service of grassroots movements and equitable change. https://sankofa.org

04/25/2023

The world lost a voice for equity and inclusion today. We celebrate the life, talent, and activism of Veteran Harry Belafonte.

Singer, songwriter, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte was in the Navy during World War II, dropping out of high school in New York City to enlist and contribute to the war effort from 1944 to

04/18/2023

A children's book about Ann Frank and her diary, performed by Ella Skye.

Anne Frank for KS1 Little people, Big dreams. -Text copyright ⓒ 2018 by Mª ISABEL SÃNCHEZ VEGARA. -Illustrations copyright ⓒ 2018 by Sveta Dorosheva www.Quar...

04/18/2023

We remember the Holocaust. As a nation, we study survivors and heroes so we can learn to be upstanders. We study evil so we can recognize it when we see it.

This video provides an overview of the Holocaust, Days of Remembrance, and why we remember this history in the United States.

11/13/2022

Picture "Band of Brothers" w/o interviews from E Co. Vets. We're losing Veteran heroes like Ben Chin before we can interview them on film, forever silencing first person accounts. Pens4Swords.org needs corp. sponsors who respect journalism ethics.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-12/la-me-eureka-chinatown-history

In an 1885 expulsion, the city of Eureka, Calif., put its Chinese residents on two ships and kept them out for seven decades. Now, the Eureka Chinatown Project tells the story.

11/12/2022

Less than one-half of one percent of Americans choose to serve in the U.S. Military. Here is your chance to acquaint yourself with the facts about members of the U.S. Military community: www.pens4swords.org/thewritestuff.

The Write Stuff is a blog, produced by writers at Pens4Swords, a 501(C)(3) multimedia production corp. that trains and creates mobile jobs for U.S. Veterans & military family members

10/05/2022

The world is richer because media producers hired this Veteran's wife. The world is poorer because we lost another strong, powerful woman who spoke her mind.