... the mortal terror of losing our freedom. Everything has a symbolic meaning in one way or another, but the truth has only one-reality. Symbolizing the memorable photo of three New York City firefighters raising the American flag atop a pile of rubble at Ground Zero into a statue honoring the 343 fellow firefighters this country lost on 9-11 is a true show of Americanism, as ... Nation under God" not "one Nation under many gods." Somewhere during the transition of this moving event, society has lost focus on the meaning of "United We Stand. Many New York City firefighters and their famili...

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... help the country see that peace and unity were more important than aggression and dominance. There was a Flower Power love-in in the spring of 1967 in New York's Central Park. The love-in was a gathering of 10,000 people adorned in exotic hippie costumes and face and body paint. These people congregated for a day ... as were many of the Flower Power acts. As important as hippies and flowers were, the defining event of the "60s took place in Bethel, New York, from August 15-18, 1969. The three-day event was held in a field owned by farmer Max Yasgur in the Catskill Mountains, just fifty-f...

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... the major battles in Operation: Iraqi Freedom broke out. We took one of San Francisco's famous trolley rides late at night to view parts of the city. About half an hour into it, the trolley stopped at Union Square, and we were dropped off to await pickup by a bus. The trolley ... would not have had such a great loss of soldiers in Vietnam. As this war progressed, so did civil unrest. One hundred thousand protesters gathered in New York, and even more in San Francisco. Riots broke out here, and in other big cities such as Detroit. The president was getting no support from any ... Some c...

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... . The sexual revolution began. Women earn 60 cents for every $1 a man earns. Women of colour earn 40 cents for every $1 a white man earns. 1968 - New York radical woman protest at Miss World Pageant in Atlantic City. The Feminist Movement took off 1968-1970. 1969 - Women set up "Jane" abortion clinic. Up until now abortion were carried out in back allies or in ... ...

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... 4,000 arrested, fire damaged was put at $175 million. Those race riots were going on all over the United States. As a matter of fact, my uncle was driving down a city street in York, Pa that year during a race riot and a brick was thrown through the window of his vehicle. He was almost killed and ended up in the hospital with a metal plate ... ...

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... usually them that had to mourn over the loss of their dad, brother, or son. "In the spring of 1967, huge antiwar protests occurred in major cities such as New York City and San Francisco"(Alterman 11 ). Every kind of person participated in this march, priests, business people, and mothers. Hundreds of men burned their draft cards in these protests. As the ... ...

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... , in honor of the anti-war protesting. Going on at the same time in the U.S., were the millions of anti-war protests in major cities. The major cities included New York City, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Portland. On May 4th, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University in Ohio at 12:50 P.M. they reportedly panicked and fired into a crowd of ... ...

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