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26 January 1863, Abraham Lincoln's U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton grants permission for a Massachusetts militia of African descent.

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22 January 2003. Sgt. Bill Mauldin, U.S. Army WWII combat Veteran, 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner, funny, tragic, unafraid to mock authority, passes, then buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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12 January 2021, in an extraordinary letter to the U.S. military, the nation’s Joint Chiefs of Staff condemned 6 January 2021 acts of “sedition and insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol, while acknowledging Joe Biden’s election victory.

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21 January 1969, Willis Goff and Larry Villarreal, US Coast Guard, both earned the Silver Star when they with a 14' Boston Whaler saved nine GIs in Viet Nam who were land-surrounded by enemy.

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2 January 1861, Colonel Charles Stone appointed command of Washington D.C. militia. US Military Academy aka Westpoint (a PUBLIC school) graduate, civil engineer and surveyor. Noted for his role in constructing base of Statue of Liberty.

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21 January 2010, President Barack Obama, Democrat, sends an additional 2,000 GIs to Haiti for its earthquake relief.

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We Veterans know that the US Armed Forces and National Guard are the largest humanitarian aid organizations in the world.

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