A German prisoner of war lights the cigarette of a British soldier, World War I.
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President Taft Accepts the 1912 Republican Party Nomination at the White House
The Notification Committee traveled from Chicago on August 1st so Taft could formally accept the party’s nomination. The actual ceremony took place in the East Room of the White House, with hundreds of prominent Republicans attending.
Photo from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
U.S. Marine Raiders and their dogs, which are used for scouting and running messages, starting off for the jungle front lines on Bougainville - November or December 1943
From: The National Archives
Senator Edward Kennedy talks with President Ronald Reagan, left, on June 24, 1985, as they look over an American Eagle that graced President John F. Kennedy’s desk during a fund raising event for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at McLean, Virginia
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A company of the 6th Maine Infantry on parade after the battle of Fredericksburg
From: The National Archives
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day - a time set aside to honor fallen soldiers of the Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers. The first Decoration Day was observed on May 30, 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War. On that day, the largest known ceremony was held at Arlington National Cemetery, across the river from Washington D.C. Read More
This Memorial Day weekend, we honor and thank all of the men and women who have served our country.
Patrick J. Kennedy and friends playing cards, 1899
From: The JFK Presidential Library
Hamilton, the most brilliant American statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time, was of course easily the foremost champion in the ranks of the New York Federalists; second to him came Jay, pure, strong and healthy in heart, body, and mind. Both of them watched with uneasy alarm the rapid drift toward anarchy; and both put forth all their efforts to stem the tide. They were of course too great men to fall in with the views of those whose antagonism to tyranny made them averse from order. They had little sympathy with the violent prejudices produced by the war. In particular they abhorred the vindictive laws directed against the persons and property of Tories; and they had the manliness to come forward as the defenders of the helpless and excessively unpopular Loyalists. They put a stop to the wrongs which were being inflicted on these men, and finally succeeded in having them restored to legal equality with other citizens, standing up with generous fearlessness against the clamor of the mob.
—Theodore Roosevelt (via tindallism)
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“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
