She had a bubbly and girly personality. Her boyfriend‚ Mark Fossie‚ got the idea to fly his girlfriend out to his assigned medical outpost in Vietnam. The outpost was near the village of Tra Bong‚ up in the mountains west of Chu Lai. It was a fun place to be during the war because you only had to tend to the victims and after that you can do as you wish. The outpost has also a base of operations for a squad of six Green Berets aka Greenies. This would all seem like a safe place to protect an innocent
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sacrifice is hardly recorded in the books of Indian History as it was fought on the behalf of British Government. Saragarhi was a small village where a communication relay post‚ which connected British India forts of Lockhart and Gulistan on the border areas of Afghanistan‚ was established in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of
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after graduating from Macalester College to fight a war he hated. Tim O’Brien believed he was above the war‚ and as a result pursued the alternative of escaping across the border to Canada. This understandable act is what Tim O’Brien considers an embarrassment to himself‚ and to others. When Tim O’Brien finds accommodation on the border to Canada‚ he meets Elroy Berdahl who eventually influences Tim O’Brien‚ to change. Elroy Berdahl acts as a mentor to Tim‚ a figure that remains detached in the sense
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DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WAS BORN JANUARY 26 1880 AT THE LITTLE ROCK BARRACKS IN ARKANSA. HE SPENT MOST OF HIS CHILDHOOD ON WESTERN FRONTIER OUTPOST WHERE HIS FATHER WAS STATIONED. IN 1903 MACARTHUR GRADUATED AT THE TOP OF HIS CLASS FROM THE U.S MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT. IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR DOUGLAS MACARTHUR HAD HELPED HIS FATHER DURING THE WORLD WAR 1. HE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE AMERICAN HELP WITH THE OCCUPATION OF VERACRUZ‚ MEXICO IN 1914. MACARTHUR WAS PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL IN FRANCE
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the door swung open with 4 marines and a commanding officer from NATO forces‚ but there uniforms were American mainland uniforms so it was the end. They got to the island so quickly‚ but I was informed that 2 of my alpha squad members returned to outpost alpha and saved almost 20 marines that held sanctuary there. However the 2 marines that helped us were executed by CSAT forces before NATO reinforcements got to my position. I know that the attempt at taking over that compound was next to impossible
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their reign the Great Wall was extended even further‚ and under the emperor Wudi (140-87 B.C.) it spanned approximately 3700 miles (6‚000 kilometers) between Dunhuang in the west to Bohai Sea in the east. The danger of incursion along northern Chinese border by the federated tribes of Mongols‚ Turks and Tunguz of the Empire of the Xiongnu‚ the first empire of the steppes‚ made a defense policy more necessary than ever. Alternating military actions with intensive diplomatic efforts‚ this policy entailed
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For centuries the Silk Road has served as a connector between empires‚ countries‚ and cities all over the world. The outposts and cities along the Silk Road became the melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European
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the moon. (2006). Retrieved from http://www.greatwall-of-china.com/42-88/whether-the-great-wall-is-visible-from-the-moon.html Langerbein‚ H. (2009). Great blunders?: the great wall of China‚ the Berlin wall‚ and the proposed Unite States/Mexico border fence Lu‚ R. (2008). Ancient and contemporary changes to the great wall. China Today‚ 57(1)‚ 14-19. The great wall past and present. (cover story). (2008). China Today‚ 57(1)‚ 10-13.
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~ The issues Petra has faced and will be facing The site suffers from a host of threats‚ including the collapse of ancient structures‚ erosion due to flooding and improper rainwater drainage‚ weathering from salt water rising‚ improper restoration of ancient structures‚ and unsustainable tourism. On May 19‚ AD 363 A.D‚ an extremely damaging disaster hit the rose red city of Petra in the form of a series of powerful earthquakes. The city already has a history of tectonic spasms as it sits near
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on one of the more challenging rivers in the Southeast. Our home base is what we call the “outpost”‚ its where we eat‚ sleep‚ shower‚ and live our lives in what some people might call a barbaric way of life. The outpost consists of about forty or so river guides that take people down challenging class four and five whitewater during the day and then come home for an evening of events at night. At the outpost we have one raft guide that has decided to lay down their paddle in order to supply the community
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