May
20
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum will be closed to general admission, starting June 3. It will still be available to small groups by appointment, and the staff will still be working every day. But the work the staff will be doing necessitates the temporary closure. The...
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May
13
The television show “M*A*S*H” made Americans somewhat more conscious of the role of the Army Medical Corps during the Korean War, decades after the fact. The average civilian knows far less about those who served in that capacity in Vietnam. That will be addressed on Saturday, May 25 – Memorial...
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May
11
Col. Elliott White Springs was a flying ace in World War I, shooting down 16 enemy aircraft. After the war, he needed a way to turn around the family business – Springs Industries. He tried a number of things, and eventually he turned to the American pin-up girl for help....
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Apr
26
Moss Blachman looks every bit the academic he has been for nearly a half-century, but one thing stands out: His suit coat usually features a small Bronze Star lapel pin. He is proud of his service as an Air Force intelligence officer in Vietnam from September 1965 through the next...
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Apr
10
The notice in The New York Times was like so many from 1945: Pfc. Herbert J. Rosencrans, Company C, 415th Infantry, 104th Division, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin J. Rosencrans of Woodmere, L.I., who died of wounds last Feb. 25 in Arnoldsweiler, Germany, has received posthumously the Silver Star...
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Apr
02
A lot of people think the Swamp Fox let the Fighting Gamecock down at a critical moment in the American Revolution. But his letters don’t reflect that. “I have learned that a lot of historians and biographers have gotten Marion wrong in some respects,” says Rick Wise, interim director of...
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Mar
28
True or False: Boston was the only city to stage a “tea party” protest in the years before the American Revolution. False! Charleston had one, too! And the South Carolina “party” happened first! If you don’t know that, you should certainly come to the 2024 Revolutionary War Day on Saturday,...
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Mar
13
Alston Gore flew helicopters in Vietnam as a young Army first lieutenant. He arrived in-country in September 1970 to support the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). After five months, the 1st Cav went home, but Gore and the other pilots stayed to support the South Vietnamese troops taking over the job....
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Mar
13
One of the biggest obstacles the U.S. military services faced in Vietnam was that posed by Mother Nature – the lush, tropical rainforest that never stopped growing. It impeded movement, and provided millions of hiding places for enemy troops bent on ambush. Keith Albert of Florence was one of the...
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Feb
21
George Orwell wrote, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Mike Burgess knows Orwell was right. Mike is a history teacher, caught between today’s left and right in their efforts to seize control of the future. He wrote, in a recent edition of...
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