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		<title>Tank, Michael E.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Welcome Home”
As a nineteen-year-old college drop out, forty years ago on this past August 18th, I was being pushed and shoved off a bus at MCRD, San Diego, California, as we ‘boots’ were trying desperately to move as fast was we could for what we were all sure was a bunch of rabid DI’s. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SSG MICHAEL JAMES LIPARI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Feb 15 2004, I left for Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I never got to say good bye to my parents because I was already forward deploy in Germany and they were in Miami, Florida. So I often wrote my parents and called once a month to say hello.
I had nothing really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lieutenant Junior Grade John Harding Coyne, U.S. Navy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born June 14, 1920, Jack Coyne attended school and high school at Winnetka, Illinois, then attended Cornell University at Ithaca, NY.  He enlisted on October 11, 1941 from his hometown of Evanston, IL., became an Aviation Cadet April 27, 1942, trained at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, was commissioned as an Ensign on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Martin Waldron, Jr.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Killed in action &#8211; lost at sea on March 1, 1942.  Served as a Seaman First Class aboard the seaplane tender USS Langley (AV-3), survived its sinking on February 27, 1942, was rescued and transferred to the USS Pecos (AO-6) which was then also sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, on March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sergeant Theodore J. Dziennick</title>
		<link>http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2010/02/sergeant-theodore-j-dziennick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Story Submissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Served as a rifleman with the 9th Infantry, “The Old Reliables,” 39th Infantry Regiment, “The Fighting Falcons &#8211; anything, anywhere, anytime, bar nothing,” Company E. 
Served from July 15, 1942 to September 22, 1945; overseas from March 17, 1943 to December 20, 1944. Trained at Camp Roberts, California with Company C, 81st Infantry Training Battalion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Deeds not Words” By Earl King (1921-2001)</title>
		<link>http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2009/09/%e2%80%9cdeeds-not-words%e2%80%9d-by-earl-king-1921-2001/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Deeds not Words”
A narrative about WW 2, June 1944
Written By Earl King (1921-2001)
Begin date: 16 Nov. 1999 at 1330 hours.
enlisted service # RA 7030996
commissioned #01922677
SS# 333-10-6173.
Edited by Bryan R. King  September 20th, 2009  shoshin007@yahoo.com
Born Nov. 27, 1921 in Marion, Illinois. Primary unit assignment during W.W. 2: I was a member of company B [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Otis Saalman</title>
		<link>http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2009/07/major-otis-saalman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is regretful how long it took me to find time for history. 
When I was a child, history was conveniently personified in the image of my great uncle Otis during visits to my grandparents&#8217; house. Otis was a war hero, and on his rare Sunday visits, he was treated like dignitary. The admiration and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Witty</title>
		<link>http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2009/07/bob-witty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ D-Day Remembered

My teenage grandson has never evidenced the slightest interest in my military career, my war experiences, nor, in fact, anything about my past. So it was quite a surprise when he asked me to write him a letter "about the most exciting day you can remember in WWII." He explained that it was for his Grade 10 history class...]]></description>
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		<title>Hans Uberseder</title>
		<link>http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2009/07/hans-uberseder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2009/07/hans-uberseder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We landed in Marseille, France on October 20, 1944.
As we slowly sailed into the harbor of that war-torn city, I saw, for the first time, the terrible sight of the utter destruction of war. All wharves, docks and piers were in a frightful state of destruction from bombing and German demolition units. The sight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C. William Taylor</title>
		<link>http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2009/07/c-william-taylor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter to children May 8, 1995 &#8211; 50th anniversary of V-E Day:
Dear Jeff and Suci:
This is yet another milestone in my life and I want to share some of my thoughts and feelings with you while they are still fresh. The compelling images of the celebrations and memorial services her and in Western Europe that [...]]]></description>
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