Leavenworth National Cemetery
An old video I recorded at the Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas. I also added in some footage of the Chapel of the Veterans at the end. It was once the only Protestant and Catholic Church in the US where both religions were practiced in the same building. The church was featured on Ripley’s Believe it or Not. You can find more info in the links below.
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Army Birthday Run 2012
In celebration of the US Army's 237th Birthday, several hundred soldiers and their families from Fort Leavenworth go on a three mile run...with cake waiting upon their return!
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LHS Class of 1969 @ JW Crancers 10.4.14
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Teen dies after fight outside middle school
A 13-year old girl from Attucks Middle School ended up on life support at Texas Children's Hospital two days after a fight off campus.
Kashala Francis' mother, Mamie Jackson, says her daughter told her she was attacked by two girls after school on Thursday, and that another girl later jumped in and kicked her in the head.
Jackson says when her daughter returned home Thursday afternoon, she had a bruise on her face, but insisted she was okay.
Monument Dedicated to the 6888th Central Directory Postal Battalion
The 6888th was first and only African-American Women's Army Corps to deploy overseas during WWII. The monument is in the Buffalo Soldier Military Park at Fort Leavenworth, KS along with other monuments honoring African-American individuals and units, and consist of a 25-inch Bronze bust of the unit’s Commanding Officer, LTC Charity Adams (Earley), eight black granite panels highlighting the unit’s lineage, historical information, key unit pictures, one panel for the corporate donors, and on the back panel is an alphabetical list, by states, of 800-plus members, of the original list of 855 assigned during WWII. Three were killed in an automobile accident.
The monument was dedicated at the Frontier Chapel, Fort Leavenworth, KS on November 30, 2018. The official party for the ceremony was Col. Marne L. Sutten, Garrison Commander, Fort Leavenworth; Maj. Gen. Douglas C. Crissman, Director, Mission Command Center of Excellence; Mr. Gerald W. Moran, Kansas Senator; Mr. Stanley Earley; Cdr.(r) Carlton Philpot; and Mr. Dominic Johnson.
VA Properties Designated as National Historic Landmarks
Five of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities dating back to the post Civil War era receive recognition from the U.S Department of Interior as National Historic landmarks. These National Homes marked the beginning of a national system of Veterans health care.
George Marshall | Wikipedia audio article
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00:06:11 1 Early life
00:06:55 2 Early infantry career and the Philippines
00:08:55 3 World War I
00:11:56 4 Between the wars
00:16:48 5 World War II
00:17:56 5.1 Expands military force fortyfold
00:19:46 5.2 Replacement system criticized
00:23:11 5.3 Planned invasion of Europe
00:25:52 6 Analysis of Pearl Harbor intelligence failure
00:27:46 7 Post war: China
00:29:27 8 Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize
00:32:01 9 Secretary of Defense
00:33:17 9.1 Korean War
00:36:18 9.1.1 Relief of General MacArthur
00:39:01 10 Retirement
00:39:41 11 Death and burial
00:41:44 12 Reputation and legacy
00:44:55 13 Family life
00:48:36 14 Fictional portrayals
00:50:03 15 Dates of rank
00:50:12 16 Awards and decorations
00:50:23 16.1 U.S. military honors
00:50:30 16.2 Foreign orders
00:50:39 16.3 Foreign decorations and medals
00:50:50 16.4 Civilian honors
00:51:59 16.5 Namesakes
00:54:06 17 See also
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George Catlett Marshall Jr. (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American statesman and soldier. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, then served as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman. Winston Churchill lauded Marshall as the organizer of victory for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, although Marshall declined a final field leadership position that went to his protege, later U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower. After the war, as Secretary of State, Marshall advocated a significant U.S. economic and political commitment to post-war European recovery, including the Marshall Plan that bore his name. In recognition of this work, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Marshall graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1901. After serving briefly as commandant of students at the Danville Military Academy in Danville, Virginia, Marshall received his commission as a second lieutenant of Infantry in February, 1902. In the years after the Spanish–American War, he served in the United States and overseas in positions of increasing rank and responsibility, including platoon leader and company commander in the Philippines during the Philippine–American War. He was the Honor Graduate of his Infantry-Cavalry School Course in 1907, and graduated first in his 1908 Army Staff College class. In 1916 Marshall was assigned as aide-de-camp to J. Franklin Bell, the commander of the Western Department. After the United States entered World War I, Marshall served with Bell while Bell commanded the Department of the East. He was assigned to the staff of the 1st Division, and assisted with the organization's mobilization and training in the United States, as well as planning of its combat operations in France. Subsequently, assigned to the staff of the American Expeditionary Forces headquarters, he was a key planner of American operations including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
After the war, Marshall became an aide-de-camp to John J. Pershing, who was then the Army's Chief of Staff. Marshall later served on the Army staff, commanded the 15th Infantry Regiment in China, and was an instructor at the Army War College. In 1927, he became assistant commandant of the Army's Infantry School, where he modernized command and staff processes, which proved to be of major benefit during World War II. In 1932 and 1933 he commanded the 8th Infantry Regiment and Fort Screven, Georgia. Marshall commanded 5th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and Vancouver Barracks from 1936 to 1938, and received promotion to brigadier general. During this command, Marshall was also responsible for 35 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps in Oregon and sout ...
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf KCB (/ˈʃwɔrtskɒf/; 22 August 1934 – 27 December 2012), also known as Norman Schwarzkopf, was a United States Army general. While serving as Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Schwarzkopf grew up in the United States and later in Iran. He was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army in 1956. After a number of initial training programs, Schwarzkopf interrupted a stint as an academy teacher, and served in the Vietnam War first as an adviser to the South Vietnamese Army and later as a battalion commander. Schwarzkopf was highly decorated in Vietnam, being awarded three Silver Star Medals, two Purple Hearts, and the Legion of Merit. Rising through the ranks after the conflict, he later commanded the U.S. 24th Infantry Division and was one of the commanders of the Invasion of Grenada in 1983.
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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 02/28/08
John McCain
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JOHN MCCAIN: I think Guantanamo should be closed. I think it should become a symbol. And I would move those detainees to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where we have a federal prison but I also would accelerate this process of a judicial process and I do not mean a trial of the kind we have for American citizens. I mean the kind of tribunal system we did after World War II, Nuremberg, a system such as that
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December Graduation 2018
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Elizabeth Stiles the Healing Spy | Behind The Haunting #002
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Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga is a city in New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of 55,364 people, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, and is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. It is midway between the two largest cities in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne, and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
The central business district is focused around the commercial and recreational grid bounded by Best and Tarcutta Streets and the Murrumbidgee River and the Sturt Highway. The main shopping street of Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end. The city is in an alluvial valley and much of the city has a problem with urban salinity.
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#NVSBE2017 Learning Session: Proposal Preparation Tools to Win
Learn about the process of preparing proposals to government agencies by an expert who has developed Request for Proposals, served on evaluation teams, and assisted in selecting successful vendors to complete projects. Discussion includes why you need excellent writing skill, proof of knowledge, and capability that stands out for selection in solving a governmental issue.
Presented by the Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Center at the 2017 National Veterans Small Business Engagement—the largest procurement event for the Veteran small business community—powered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Bibliography of World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:06 1 Overview
00:10:03 1.1 Atlases
00:11:22 2 Theatres
00:11:31 2.1 European theatre
00:29:20 2.1.1 Invasion of Poland
00:30:16 2.1.2 Invasions of France and the Low Countries
00:31:12 2.1.3 Battle of Britain
00:32:40 2.1.4 Balkan Campaign
00:32:59 2.1.5 East African Campaign
00:33:14 2.1.6 North African Campaign
00:33:44 2.1.7 German-Soviet war (1941−45)
00:44:13 2.1.8 Italian Campaign
00:45:09 2.1.9 Operation Bodyguard
00:45:21 2.1.10 Liberation of Europe
00:49:38 2.1.11 Battle of Berlin
00:49:57 2.2 Pacific theatre
00:57:05 2.2.1 Attack on Pearl Harbor
00:58:37 2.2.2 Battle of Midway
00:59:17 2.2.3 Guadalcanal Campaign
00:59:55 2.2.4 Operation Hailstone
01:00:14 2.2.5 Battle of Iwo Jima
01:00:38 2.2.6 Battle of Okinawa
01:01:06 2.2.7 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:02:50 2.3 Strategic bombing
01:05:26 3 Biographies or autobiographies
01:23:07 4 Holocaust
01:23:16 5 Occupational policies of Nazi Germany
01:25:28 6 Regional
01:30:59 6.1 China
01:34:14 6.2 France
01:35:21 6.3 Germany
01:35:30 6.4 Japan
01:37:44 6.5 Norway
01:38:53 6.6 Poland
01:40:41 6.7 Soviet Union
01:48:17 6.8 United Kingdom
01:50:55 6.9 United States
02:01:18 6.10 Yugoslavia
02:02:12 7 Historiography
02:02:55 8 Home front
02:05:34 9 Post-war
02:10:45 9.1 Nuremberg Trials
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This is a bibliography of works on World War II.
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Wikipedia audio article
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Dwight David Ike Eisenhower ( EYE-zən-how-ər; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
Born David Dwight Eisenhower in Denison, Texas, he was raised in Kansas in a large family of mostly Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His family had a strong religious background. His mother was born a Lutheran, married as a River Brethren, and later became a Jehovah's Witness. Even so, Eisenhower did not belong to any organized church until 1952. He cited constant relocation during his military career as one reason. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War I, he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews. Following the war, he served under various generals and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1941. After the U.S. entered World War II, Eisenhower oversaw the invasions of North Africa and Sicily before supervising the invasions of France and Germany. After the war, Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff and then took on the role as president of Columbia University. In 1951–52, he served as the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft, who opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. He won that election and the 1956 election in landslides, both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II. He became the first Republican to win since Herbert Hoover in 1928. Eisenhower's main goals in office were to contain the expansion of the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. In 1953, he threatened the use of nuclear weapons until China agreed to peace terms in the Korean War. China did agree and an armistice resulted that remains in effect. His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence prioritized inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing funding for expensive Army divisions. He continued Harry S. Truman's policy of recognizing the Republic of China as the legitimate government of China, and he won congressional approval of the Formosa Resolution. His administration provided major aid to help the French fight off Vietnamese Communists in the First Indochina War. After the French left he gave strong financial support to the new state of South Vietnam. He supported local military coups against governments in Iran and Guatemala. During the Suez Crisis of 1956, Eisenhower condemned the Israeli, British and French invasion of Egypt, and he forced them to withdraw. He also condemned the Soviet invasion during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 but took no action. During the Syrian Crisis of 1957 he approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria's pro-Western neighbours. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, Eisenhower authorized the establishment of NASA, which led to the Space Race. He deployed 15,000 soldiers during the 1958 Lebanon crisis. Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed when a U.S. spy plane was shot down over Russia. He approved the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was left to his successor, John F. Kennedy, to carry out.On the domestic front, Eisenhower was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies and expanded Social Security. He covertly opposed Joseph McCarthy and contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking executive privilege. Eisenhower s ...
William Tecumseh Sherman | Wikipedia audio article
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William Tecumseh Sherman
00:02:06 1 Early life
00:03:26 1.1 Sherman's given names
00:04:52 1.2 Military training and service
00:07:57 1.3 Marriage and business career
00:10:24 1.4 Military college superintendent
00:13:01 1.5 St. Louis interlude
00:14:39 2 Civil War service
00:14:48 2.1 First commissions and Bull Run
00:16:02 2.2 Breakdown
00:18:27 2.3 Shiloh
00:21:19 2.4 Vicksburg
00:23:21 2.5 Chattanooga
00:25:21 2.6 Atlanta
00:27:54 2.7 March to the Sea
00:30:16 2.8 Final campaigns in the Carolinas
00:32:38 2.9 Confederate surrender
00:34:14 3 Slavery and emancipation
00:37:45 4 Strategies
00:39:29 4.1 Total warfare
00:43:20 4.2 Modern assessment
00:46:25 5 Departmental commander and Reconstruction
00:49:14 6 General of the Army
00:53:38 7 Later years
00:54:39 7.1 Death
00:55:20 8 Religious views
00:57:03 9 Monuments
00:58:04 10 Historiography
00:59:20 10.1 Autobiography and memoirs
01:03:28 10.2 Published correspondence
01:05:19 10.3 In popular culture
01:05:55 10.4 Sherman on U.S. postage
01:06:57 10.5 Sherman name in the military
01:07:57 11 Dates of rank
01:08:50 12 Writings
01:10:47 13 See also
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William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.Sherman began his Civil War career serving in the First Battle of Bull Run and Kentucky in 1861. He served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the battles of forts Henry and Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, and the Chattanooga Campaign, which culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. He accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in April 1865, after having been present at most major military engagements in the western theater.
When Grant assumed the U.S. presidency in 1869, Sherman succeeded him as Commanding General of the Army, in which capacity he served from 1869 until 1883. As such, he was responsible for the U.S. Army's engagement in the Indian Wars over the next 15 years. Sherman advocated total war against hostile Indians to force them back onto their reservations. He steadfastly refused to be drawn into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the best-known first-hand accounts of the Civil War. British military historian B. H. Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was the first modern general.
Dirty War | Wikipedia audio article
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The Dirty War (Spanish: guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military and security forces and right-wing death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA, or Triple A) hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism or the Montoneros movement.About 30,000 people disappeared, many of whom were impossible to formally report due to the nature of state terrorism. The justification for the Dirty War was the armed actions of the Montoneros and the ERP. From 1969 to 1979, there were 239 kidnappings and 1,020 murders by the guerrillas. Therefore, the targets were students, militants, trade unionists, writers, journalists, artists and anyone suspected to be a left-wing activist, included Peronist guerrillas. The disappeared (victims kidnapped, tortured and murdered whose bodies were disappeared by the military government) included those thought to be politically or ideologically a threat to the military junta even vaguely, or contrary to the plan of neoliberal economic policies dictated by Operation Condor. They were killed in an attempt by the junta to silence the social and political opposition.Many of the members of the juntas are currently in prison for crimes against humanity and genocide.
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Wikipedia audio article
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Dwight David Ike Eisenhower ( EYE-zən-how-ər; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
Born David Dwight Eisenhower in Denison, Texas, he was raised in Kansas in a large family of mostly Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His family had a strong religious background. His mother was born a Lutheran, married as a River Brethren, and later became a Jehovah's Witness. Even so, Eisenhower did not belong to any organized church until 1952. He cited constant relocation during his military career as one reason. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War I, he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews. Following the war, he served under various generals and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1941. After the U.S. entered World War II, Eisenhower oversaw the successful invasions of North Africa and Sicily before supervising the invasions of France and Germany. After the war, Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff and then took on the role as president of Columbia University. In 1951–52, he served as the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft, who opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. He won that election and the 1956 election in landslides, both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II. He became the first Republican to win since Herbert Hoover in 1928. Eisenhower's main goals in office were to contain the expansion of the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. In 1953, he threatened the use of nuclear weapons until China agreed to peace terms in the Korean War. China did agree and an armistice resulted that remains in effect. His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence prioritized inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing funding for expensive Army divisions. He continued Harry S. Truman's policy of recognizing the Republic of China as the legitimate government of China, and he won congressional approval of the Formosa Resolution. His administration provided major aid to help the French fight off Vietnamese Communists in the First Indochina War. After the French left he gave strong financial support to the new state of South Vietnam. He supported local military coups against governments in Iran and Guatemala. During the Suez Crisis of 1956, Eisenhower condemned the Israeli, British and French invasion of Egypt, and he forced them to withdraw. He also condemned the Soviet invasion during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 but took no action. During the Syrian Crisis of 1957 he approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria's pro-Western neighbours. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, Eisenhower authorized the establishment of NASA, which led to the Space Race. He deployed 15,000 soldiers during the 1958 Lebanon crisis. Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed when a U.S. spy plane was shot down over Russia. He approved the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was left to his successor, John F. Kennedy, to carry out.On the domestic front, Eisenhower was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies and expanded Social Security. He covertly opposed Joseph McCarthy and contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking executive privilege. E ...
Dwight Eisenhower | Wikipedia audio article
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Dwight Eisenhower
00:05:04 1 Early life and education
00:11:10 2 Personal life
00:16:00 3 World War I
00:18:10 3.1 In service of generals
00:24:08 4 World War II
00:25:36 4.1 Operations Torch and Avalanche
00:28:57 4.2 Supreme Allied commander and Operation Overlord
00:32:22 4.3 Liberation of France and victory in Europe
00:35:19 5 After World War II
00:35:28 5.1 Military Governor in Germany and Army Chief of Staff
00:38:02 5.2 1948 presidential election
00:40:00 5.3 President at Columbia University and NATO Supreme Commander
00:45:42 5.4 Presidential campaign of 1952
00:49:41 5.5 Election of 1956
00:50:37 6 Presidency (1953–1961)
00:55:25 6.1 Interstate Highway System
00:57:06 6.2 Foreign policy
01:01:17 6.2.1 Space Race
01:03:54 6.2.2 Korean War, Free China and Red China
01:07:26 6.2.3 The Middle East and Eisenhower doctrine
01:10:28 6.2.4 Southeast Asia
01:14:00 6.2.5 1960 U-2 incident
01:16:31 6.3 Civil rights
01:20:07 6.4 Relations with Congress
01:24:16 6.5 Judicial appointments
01:24:25 6.5.1 Supreme Court
01:25:37 6.6 States admitted to the Union
01:25:56 6.7 Health issues
01:29:49 6.8 End of presidency
01:33:45 7 Post-presidency, death and funeral
01:37:06 8 Legacy and memory
01:43:24 9 Tributes and memorials
01:45:28 10 Awards and decorations
01:45:38 11 Other honors
01:47:08 12 Promotions
01:47:30 13 Family tree
01:47:39 14 See also
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Dwight David Ike Eisenhower ( EYE-zən-how-ər; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
Born David Dwight Eisenhower in Denison, Texas, he was raised in Kansas in a large family of mostly Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His family had a strong religious background. His mother was born a Lutheran, married as a River Brethren, and later became a Jehovah's Witness. Even so, Eisenhower did not belong to any organized church until 1952. He cited constant relocation during his military career as one reason. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War I, he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews. Following the war, he served under various generals and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1941. After the U.S. entered World War II, Eisenhower oversaw the invasions of North Africa and Sicily before supervising the invasions of France and Germany. After the war, Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff and then took on the role as president of Columbia University. In 1951–52, he served as the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft, who opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. He won that election and the 1956 election in landslides, both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II. He became the first Republican to win since Herbert Hoover in 1928. Eisenhower's main goals in office were to contain the expansion of the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. In 1953, he threatened the use of nuclear weapons until China agreed to peace terms in the Korean War. China did agree and an armistice resulted that remains in effect. His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence prioritized inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing funding for expensive Army divisions. He continued Harry S. Truman's policy of recognizing the Republic of China as the legitimate government of China, and he won congressional approval of the Formosa Resolution. H ...