TDIH: Dolley Madison’s Escape
She famously saved George Washington’s portrait.
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TDIH: William Barber’s Medal of Honor
“[M]y inclination was always to obey the spirit of any order I received,” he later explained, “and improve on it if I could, expand it and add to it.”
TDIH: Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose
Then the largest wingspan of any airplane to take to the sky.
TDIH: Nineteenth Amendment
What took so long? Our founding generation is often criticized for this delay, but such a perspective fails to understand the world as it was experienced by our Founders in the late 1700s.
Medal of Honor Monday: Sadao “Spud” Munemori
“This war is hell,” he wrote his sister, “and it’s no place for anybody to be. I never knew I could pray so darn seriously until they started shelling holy hell out of us one day.”
TDIH: Great Seal of the United States
Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson worked together on the Declaration of Independence. Now they would struggle together to create a graphic depiction of the values important to the new nation.
TDIH: Annie Oakley
Legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley didn’t learn to shoot because she wanted to be famous. She learned to shoot because her family needed food.
TDIH: General Charles Lee’s Court Martial
If Charles Lee had had his way, he would have been Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
TDIH: Alcatraz
The prison remained open for 29 years, housing such famous names as Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. But was the prison really inescapable? Thirty-six men attempted the dangerous feat.”
Medal of Honor Monday: Ernest H. Dervishian
“I was shaking so hard . . . . Bullets sprayed alongside my arm so close that they made my sleeve flutter.”
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