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Home for Christmas (1945)
- by Walter Martin Baumhofer

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December 16th, 1907, Teddy Roosevelt launches his Great White Fleet. The embodiment of his motto, "speak softly and carry a big stick." The fleet's world tour boosted US prestige abroad, and foreshadowed the United State's naval dominance.

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A powder boy poses for a picture with one of the guns on the U.S.S. New Hampshire, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. (1860)

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Theodore Roosevelt and His Rough Riders at the Top of San Juan Hill. - Cuba, 1898.

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Jewish communists in Russia, 1917.

The sign reads: “Proletarians of all countries, unite!” (A Yiddish rendition of the famous slogan from The Communist Manifesto).

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84 years ago, the world changed forever.

In just over an hour, 353 planes from the Empire of Japan would lay waste to the United States Pacific Fleet. 2,403 Americans were killed. And a nation was left hellbent on revenge.

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The Christmas Party
- by American artist Robert David Wilkie (1850).

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The USS Shaw met a devastating fate during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

On December 7th, 1941, she was hit by several Japanese bombs while in dry dock.

One struck her forward section, setting off raging fires that soon reached her forward magazine. The ammunition detonated, triggering a massive explosion that tore the ship apart and produced one of the most famous photographs of the attack.

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General Pyotr Wrangel
(Illustrated by Alex Wisner for his "Always With Honor" graphic Novel.)

Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel was born into one of the Russian Empire's oldest and most prestigious noble families. Although Wrangel was kicked out of his elite military school as a young man, he volunteered for service in the Russo-Japanese War and was quickly decorated for brilliance in combat. In World War I, he was one of the earliest men to be awarded Russia's highest medal for valor. After the Revolution, Wrangel led a small force in the anti-communist White Army. With this army Wrangel won brutal battles against overwhelming odds time and time again. The Bolsheviks began to call him the Black Baron.

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Happy Thanksgiving.
I hope you have a blessed day.

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