Mary Trotter Kion's Blog
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During the War of 1812, Mary Pickersgill created an American flag that measured three stories high. It flew over Fort McHenry. It, and the fort's bombardment by the British, inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner" while he was a prisoner of the British.
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America goes west after Lewis and Clark returns from their trek to the Pacific Northwest. Fur trappers travel the westward path and, in time, are followed by missionaries, explorers, and gold miners. The Army headed west and built forts, and riled the Indians, to supposedly protect westward travelers. Soon, long lines of covered wagons were snaking across the prairie. Towns sprung up and the outlaws, gamblers, and cowboys made the western scene.
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John Garcia a Hawaiian boy, was only sixteen when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He may have been only a boy before that awful day, but after seeing the destruction and death, some very personal, he surely soon became a man as he helped drag dead bodies from the harbor, then was told that his girlfriend had died in the attack.
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When Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels tired of his teenage mistress, Susie Ruth Kuhns, he rented her and her family as spies for Japan. The Kuhns family kept watch, until the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, on United States naval ship and military installation activities at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the surrounding area.
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Although peace negotiations were underway in Washington D. C. between the United States and Japan, due to an embargo America had placed on Japan, the Japanese proceed with their war on America plans. On December 7, 1941, Japan successfully performed a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
