Ep 9 | Body Bags – A Soldier Returns Home Forever Changed

We have memorialized the sacrifice of soldiers who died for our freedom. Today, we look at the sacrifice of those who live. Retired Army Captain Scott Miller discusses his exposure to a nerve agent and also sheds some light on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Take a moment with us to look back and find…

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They Drank from the Same Canteen

Captain S. P. Horrall tells a pretty story of an incident during the battle of Perryville, Kentucky on October 8, 1862. Captain Horrall thus relates it: “The Forty-second regiment, by overpowering numbers, was compelled to surrender the ground that had been fought over, back and forth, three times, being held alternately by the Federals and…

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Let Our Flag Wave Over Them, Let Our Flowers Deck Their Graves

“The graves of our dead soldiers command the respect…of all. Particularly this year, when there are at Arlington a large number of new-made mounds; when or the hillsides of Cuba and Porto Rico, and about the swamps of the Philippines, other American soldiers are buried, we should think of and decorate the graves of our…

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