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Places like the World War II memorial, Arlington National Cemetery [or] Pearl Harbor even
I think that because 9/11 is such a defining moment in our lives -- like Pearl Harbor or the Kennedy assassination -- people will start remembering 9/11 ... George W. Bush, in my opinion, did a pretty good job of uniting the country in those weeks of dire need. He communicated well; the government functioned.
As a result of Sen. Paul's historic filibuster, civil liberties got two wins: the Obama administration disclaimed authority to use an armed drone within the United States in the absence of a Pearl Harbor-style attack, but more importantly, Americans learned about the breathtakingly broad claims of executive authority undergirding the Obama administration's vast killing programMore quotes »
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the 10th time in three years, the Pearl Harbor-based cruiser USS Lake Erie has shot down a short-range ballistic missile target that was launched from Kauai’s Pacific Missile Range Facility. Login for more... Login or sign up below for the complete story ACTIVATION from Star Advertiser Read more »
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Signs of surprise attacks, like the one at the Benghazi consulate, can be seen clearly only in hindsight: letter to the editor
wife of Albert Wohlstetter, one of America's leading nuclear strategists during the Cold War. In 1962, Roberta published "Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision," a reassessment of the Dec. 7 attacks that examined all available intelligence collected in the months from Cleveland Plain Dealer Read more »
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Cogswell's 'rant' way off on facts
German Luftwaffe during it's "blitz" over London from September 1940 to May 1941, and as did the Japanese in their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Honolulu, and Manila a day later in December of 1941. With all due respect to Mr. Cogswell's anti-American rant in from The Norwich Evening Sun Read more »
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Book Review : BOOK REVIEW: The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
late 1942, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began snapping up property in eastern Tennessee. Within a matter of months, approximately 59,000 acres of farms and orchards, homesteads and hovels just south of the Black Oak Ridge hosted from Science News Read more »
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Why the Shamoon virus looms as destructive threat
introduces the notion of a digital Pearl Harbor(Photo: Shutterstock) It's been 9 months since the milestone the Shamoon virus wreaked havoc at Aramco. Shamoon was not designed to steal data. Nor was it just another garden variety denial of service attack, from USA Today Read more »
