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Man Pleads Guilty to Violating Stolen Valor Act
A man who lied during a public meeting about being awarded the nation's highest military honor pleaded guilty on May 5 to violating the Stolen Valor Act of 2005.
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Reweard Offered For Medal Thieves
Lord Ashcroft, the British peer whose NZ$200,000(approx. $155,000 U.S.) reward led to the successful return of many of New Zealand's priceless medals for bravery earlier this year, offered a further reward of up to NZ$200,000 for the apprehension and conviction of those who stole them.
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Campaign Stars to Adorn Afghanistan and Iraq Campaign Medals
The Department of Defense announced that campaign stars are now authorized for wear on the Afghanistan Campaign Medal (ACM) and Iraq Campaign Medal (ICM). The campaign stars recognize a service member’s particpation in DoD designated campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The French Armistice Army Insignia
by Clement V. Kelly
By Article 4 of the Armistice Treaty, the French Government was allowed to raise a reconstituted army, to be known as the Armistice Army (L’Armee de l’Armistice), to preserve order in continental (unoccupied) France and North Africa. Retaliating for the hated Treaty of Versailles, which had limited the German Army to only 100,000 men, Hitler initially imposed the same limitations on the Armistice Army, but later some increases were allowed. The Armistice Army eventually numbered 170,000 men in unoccupied France and North Africa. Little is known of this army, which has been largely ignored by histories of World War II.
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“Frag Grenades” of the Great War
by David Lougheed
The trench stalemate on the Western Front during World War One lead to nefarious new methods of killing. The grenade was one of those new weapons, refined from previous incarnations.
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Civil War Field Hospital Opened Near Antietam National Battlefield
The barn, located near the Philip Pry House, is operated by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in nearby Frederick. It opened to the public earlier this week.
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Tampa Fights Lawsuit Over Civil War-Era Loan
City says a resident is more than 100 years too late in seeking repayment for a loan her ancestors made the city during the Civil War.
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