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- Text: ...Each night, their numbers have swelled. On Friday, they were joined by other burgeoning groups — the veteran-led Wall of Vets, green-shirted Teachers Against Tyrants, the pizza-box carrying ChefBloc, health-care workers in scrubs and Lawyers for Black Lives, who turned up at the protest i...
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- Text: ...newed questions about the memory and iconography of the Confederacy, Greg Stewart, another member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, told The New York Times, “You’re asking me to agree that my great-grandparent and great-great-grandparents were monsters.” So much of the story we tel...
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- Text: ... a young man called Jason in Portland, Oregon. I’ve edited it as it was quite long. My city is a wall of moms and a Navy veteran unflinching while he’s beaten by batons and pepper sprayed at point blank range. My city is Black community leaders and white allies and state leaders that ...
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- Text: ...week on the West Coast, like previous record-breaking blazes, are further validation of something forest ecologists and fire veterans have been saying for years: that no amount of firefighting resources will avert the next big wildfire. Instead of treating wildfires as a threat to be swiftl...
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- Text: ... charges The addition of six people to the indictment means that nine defendants, led by three already charged U.S. military veterans, face allegations that they “planned with each other, and with others known and unknown” to obstruct the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s e...
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- Text: ...ey didn‟t use the term park in those days, cause that‟s an automobile term, but anyway would stop somewhere right around Veterans Park there and we would watch the Veterans march past and of course in the very early days of my recollection why a few of the Civil War Veteran...
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- Text: ...-Mexico border. In a news release, prosecutors said Bannon and another organizer, Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, lied when they claimed they would not take any compensation as part of the campaign, called “We Build the Wall.” Bannon, prosecutors alleged, received more than $1 million ...
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- Text: ...I think that retail capacity will be reduced, relocated, and repurposed,” said Daniel O’Connor, a veteran retail adviser and visiting executive at the Harvard Business School. Reduced means that thousands of restaurants will go out of business. “Flat out, I’m telling you a lot of to...
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- Text: ...We watch the weekly area competition and I have enjoyed the extra judges brought in on Fridays. They are all either veterans or people associated with the Second World War. It seems to me that Britain is stuck in their past glory days and unable to move forward into the future. Perhaps thei...
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- Text: ...But when the dust cleared, it was found that she was a dedicated QAnon follower, a white woman, a veteran and a strong believer in Trump and violence to achieve all ends. Take a moment to consider the difference. Last night I watched Joe Biden almost lose his temper as he articulated the di...
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- Text: ..., who hadn’t instructed police to bring gear like gas masks, but from an Instagram screenshot texted to him by a friend. A veteran officer said, “that was a heavily trained group of militia terrorists that attacked us,” describing the rioters with two-way radios and bear spray in the ...
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- Text: ...Craig was contracted to lecture on Big History. I had no idea what to expect. I had friends who were veteran cruisers and they told me I would love it. I wasn’t sure. To board the ship we flew to Hong Kong. This was the first of many destinations I had never been to. Just a note here - I ...
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- Text: ...r years on active duty until 1970. 1 (JS): Well you’ve just gotten yourself into a good deal of trouble since I run the veteran’s history project, but we won’t worry about that now right here. So, were you in the army or? (MP): Air Force for those four years. (JS): Air Force for fo...
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- Text: ...And there was a Colonel [Loomis K.] Bishop lived on the corner [now 457 Paris] and he was a Civil War veteran and he‟d been made the postman officer, post master here in Grand Rapids as an award for you know-there was-the political assignments of that kind often were given to military men...
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- Text: ...So Taylor must be in that direction. But we went past what we call the Soldiers Home, it‟s now called the Veteran‟s facility, and out to a pavilion that, that was there near the bridge that did cross over to the west side. Now that, that bridge was way out at Comstock Park. So Taylor mu...
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- Text: ...One was the” Major Watson” and the other was the “Hazel A. Major [Amasa B.] Watson” was a prominent Civil War veteran here and he lived in a big house down where Jacobsen’s downtown place is now. The “Hazel A.” was named for Hazel Amberg. They were a very prominent family here...
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- Text: ...And later he was made head of the Soldier‟s Home, out on the North end where the Veterans are now. It was the Soldiers‟ Home and he was demoted, well he was Colonel because that was the actual title that went with that home, that office. They were quite a colorful family, I think, and I...
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- Text: ...ne year, and finished my courses there, and graduated, so to speak. I stayed in Chicago and worked for the Red Cross, in the Veteran‟s Hospital for several years. Then Catherine Murray, who I mentioned several times, she said to me one day, “Let‟s go to Europe”. So I resigned my job...