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The National Park Service administered a park dedicated to the history of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 as ...

The raised anchor of  the USS Arizona. The memorial wall on the USS Arizona memorial listing the crew-members who l...

429 crewmen of the USS Oklahoma were killed on December 7, 1941, when the ship capsized from battle damage sustained during the...

This monument commemorates the Marines who lost their lives in the December 7, 1941 attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor.  The mo...

This is a statue of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana ʻ ole Pi ʻ ikoi on Wakiki Beach in Honolulu Hawaii.  He was a prince of the Hawaiian ro...

This is a monument to Victoria Ka ʻ iulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kawekiu i Lunalilo Cleghorn, Crown Princess of Hawaii, who notably tr...

This is a private monument to Sun Yat Sen in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.  This is one of at least three monuments to Sun Yat Sen in Hawaii, a...

Today In Wyoming's History: Memorial Day : Observers here may have noted that I failed to put up a post for Memorial Day when this post ...

France Pays Tribute To Early U.S. Fighter Pilots : NPR

We've been wanting to get this, and the Vietnam War memorial, from NCHS up for sometime, but, as can be seen, we've been frustra...

The Fort McPherson National Cemetery | Nebraska History Blog

The memorial inside the lobby of Natrona County High School in Casper Wyoming to graduates who died in the Vietnam War.

  The USS Natrona (APA-214) was a Haskell class attack transport that served in World War Two.  Named after Natrona County Wyomin...

These two markers, near Teapot Dome and the Naval Petroleum Oil Reserve, clearly fall outside the scope of the blog.  However, as I rece...

These are two Civil War era cannons provided, by Act of Congress, to the Grand Army of the Republic's post in Basi...