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Medal of Honor recipients. As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery, nine of whom are Canadians. John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996), US Navy Admiral, received for his actions in the Pacific Theater during WWII. James Alexander Campbell (1844–1904), US Army Private, Company A, 2nd New York Cavalry.
The residents of a small town, Northfield, demand the investigation of a boy's death. Sheriff Will Pearce (York) and Susan Marsh (Scott) arrive at the home of John Cooley (Armstrong) to speak with John's son Tommy, but John reports that Tommy has left the area without any word.
Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) [1] was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II. Due to his religious beliefs, he refused to carry a weapon. He was twice awarded the Bronze Star Medal for actions on Guam and in the Philippines.
The American Way of Death. The American Way of Death is an exposé of abuses in the funeral home industry in the United States, written by Jessica Mitford and published in 1963. An updated revision, The American Way of Death Revisited, largely completed by Mitford just before her death in 1996, appeared in 1998. [1]
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
Updated May 4, 2023 at 3:57 PM. Lashawn Thompson. (Courtesy of attorney Michael Harper [2]) Lashawn Thompson, 35, died on Sept. 13, 2022, at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where he was found ...
Valley of the Shadow of Death: 23 April 1855 Roger Fenton: Sevastopol, Crimea Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [25] [26] [27]
Bill Clinton. Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., died on January 30, 2006, after arriving at a rehabilitation center in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. Her public funeral followed eight days later at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in her resident state of Georgia.