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American History Project - AHP Discover the people, places & stories that made America. 🇺🇸
Veterans • Presidents • Battlefields • Forgotten Stories
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09/22/2026

We remember our heroes — their courage and their sacrifice. God bless America.

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09/20/2026

Drive through any town and you’ll see them — banner after banner, face after face. Fathers, sons, neighbors, friends. Every one of them answered the call.

Starting this week, the American History Project will honor them one at a time, because every hometown hero deserves to have their story told. We remember. Thank you for your service.

Do you have a family member, friend, or neighbor who served? We’d be honored to recognize them — message us or drop their name in the comments. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Banners courtesy of the County of Suffolk and the Lake Ronkonkoma Heritage Assoc.

09/19/2026

Look at this photograph.

Americans standing at the Imperial Citadel in Hue — the same city where Marines fought house to house through Tet, now walked in peace by travelers who came to understand it.

This is what the American History Project does: we go back, so no one forgets. This week you met a name on the Wall that belongs to our family, a boy at Da Nang, six lieutenants on a stone, one man on a long walk, and a prisoner who chose his brothers over his freedom. Their stories survive only if we carry them.

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09/18/2026

October 26, 1967.

A Navy pilot’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down over Hanoi. He ejected, broke both arms and a leg, and was pulled from a lake by the crowd that nearly killed him on the spot. For the next five and a half years, Lieutenant Commander John McCain was a prisoner of war — beaten, tortured, held in solitary for two of those years. When his captors learned his father was an admiral and offered him early release as propaganda, he refused: men captured before him hadn’t been freed, and the code said first in, first out.

In this photograph, May 1973, he arrives at the White House on crutches, home with the 591 POWs of Operation Homecoming, his hair gone white at 36. Whatever else his long life became, remember him like this first: a man who chose five more years of hell rather than leave his brothers behind.

Photo: White House, National Archives.

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09/17/2026

Not every day was Tet.

For the man on the ground, the war was mostly this — one Marine on patrol, r***e slung, crossing ground that might be nothing or might be everything. Walking. Watching. Waiting.

The war in Vietnam ran roughly 3,000 days, and most of them looked like this one: heat, weight, boredom, and the constant electric knowledge that any step could end it. The veterans will tell you the waiting was its own kind of combat. When you think of the men who served there, don’t only picture the battles. Picture the walk.

Photo: National Archives.

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09/16/2026

January 31, 1968.

In the early hours of Tet, the lunar new year, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam at once — Saigon, Hue, Khe Sanh, the U.S. Embassy itself.

In this photograph, smoke rolls over the streets of Saigon’s Cholon district as the fighting burned through neighborhoods where war wasn’t supposed to reach. Militarily, the offensive failed everywhere; the attackers were thrown back with staggering losses. But Americans watching at home had been told the war was nearly won, and Tet said otherwise. It became the war’s turning point — won on the ground, lost in the living room.

The fiercest fight of all was at Hue, where Marines fought house to house for a month. Remember that city’s name. You’ll see it again Saturday.

Photo: National Archives.

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09/15/2026

At the National Museum of the Marine Corps stands a small granite stone that most visitors walk past.

Read it: Company A, Basic Officer Class 1-69; young lieutenants who trained together at Quantico in 1969, at the height of the war, knowing exactly where they were going. Six of their classmates never came home: Robert F. Conti. Steven E. Donaldson. William S. Geary. Edward C. Hammerbeck. Phillip B. Jones. Leonard Robertson.

Decades later, the survivors of that class put up this stone themselves, and chose Shakespeare’s words for it — we few, we happy few, we band of brothers. Officers led from the front in Vietnam, and lieutenants paid for it. Their classmates made sure the six are not forgotten. Neither will we.

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09/14/2026

Da Nang, 1965.

A young Marine of the 7th Marines heads toward the fight, r***e in hand, someone’s name stenciled on his gear, a face that should still be in high school. The average age of the American serviceman in Vietnam was 19 — in World War II it had been 26.

They were the sons of the men who stormed Normandy and froze at Chosin, sent to a war their country would spend decades arguing about.

This week, look at the faces. That’s where the history lives.

Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, National Archives.

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09/13/2026

Vietnam Week

There are 58,281 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

This one is ours. Daniel R. Nidds of West Islip, Long Island, enlisted at 17 because he’d wanted to be a soldier all his life. On April 21, 1967, the boat carrying him and three other men on the Tra B**g River disappeared. He was 19. His parents waited six and a half years for an answer that never really came.

Look closely at the Wall and you’ll see a cross beside his name instead of a diamond — the mark of the missing. Daniel has never been recovered.

When our family visited the Wall, we found him, and touched his name, the way thousands of families touch thousands of names.

That is what this memorial is for. This week: the war those names came from.

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