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#VeteranOfTheDay: Navy Veteran Lenah S. Higbee
Originally from Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada, Lenah S. Higbee came to the U.S. to study nursing. She completed training at the New York Postgraduate Hospital in 1889 and began working as a surgical nurse for [...]
No One Would Win a Long War in Ukraine
The West Must Avoid the Mistakes of World War I In November 2022, General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent shock waves through Western capitals when he declared that the [...]
Chiefs Celebrate Doran Cart, Curator Emeritus at the National WWI Museum & Memorial, with Tour of the Hall of Honor
Cart spent 33 years as the Senior Curator at the National World War I Museum and Memorial The Hall of Honor was quiet on Monday morning, absent of the typical wall-to-wall hustle and bustle that [...]
Loaned to the Summer
A Doughboy's Love Story During World War I “Death in the Trench" Let me sing no whispers of war. Let me tear my eyes, of all death…that lay. Let me hold the hand of their [...]
Seeing Tina Home
Beating the Curfew with Military Honors Introduction My father, E. Reynold Thomas, was attending Atlantic City High School when he turned 18 on November 4, 1917. Two months later he enlisted in the Marine Corps. [...]
The US Waiting to Enter WWI
July 1914 was the start of the first war that swept across Europe and reached across the ocean. April 1917 the United States entered te war. Nearly three years had passed before the war pulled [...]
WWI Nurse namesake for new destroyer continues to inspire
Eighty years after her death, Canadian immigrant and U.S. Navy nurse Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee continues to inspire the women involved with outfitting a new Navy destroyer named for her. Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet [...]
Did you know? The first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize is from Illinois, and served in World War I?
Jane Addams was a loud and outspoken opponent to World War I. “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common [...]
Oregon Legionnaires honor Legion founding father George A. White
The American Legion Department of Oregon paid tribute to one of the Legion’s founding fathers, Maj. Gen. George Ared White, by conducting a memorial remembrance ceremony at his grave at River View Cemetery in Portland [...]
