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	District of Columbia
		Among the traces of old roadways, oaks, beech, and maples...
		Old Post Office Tower - Washington, DC The Old Post Office, built between 1892 and 1899, is home to the Bells of Congress, which were a present from England on our Nation's Bicentennial.
		The Old Stone House, one of the oldest known structures remaining in the nation's capital, is a simple 18th century dwelling built and inhabited by common people.
	www.nps.gov /state/dc (2614 words)

	War Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The War Office was a former department of the British Government, responsible for the administration of the British Army between the 17th century and 1963, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.
		The management of the War Office was initially headed by the curiously-named Secretary at War, whose role had originated under King Charles II of England as the secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.
		The post of Secretary at War was merged with that of the Secretary of State for War in 1855 and was abolished altogether in 1863.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_Office (1125 words)

	War, War, War! by Charley Reese
		Wars do not arise spontaneously, nor are they instigated by the soldiers who have to fight them.
		The unjust wars that the United States has been involved in since 1945 are all rationalized as "in defense of freedom." That is a lie used so often that today people say it automatically.
		It is well and proper to remember the war dead, for they all died innocent of the sins of the politicians who put them in harm's way.
	www.lewrockwell.com /reese/reese82.html (789 words)

	Madsion Archives: Madison's Life: Biography: Menu: War of 1812
		The U.S. was happy to emerge from the war without losses, and the peace treaty, the Treaty of Ghent (December 24, 1814), provided for essentially the status quo ante bellum (the situation before the war).
		Before the war "The party which was in power wished to continue the union; the party which was in the opposition threatened it." (Hunt, 1914, page 251).
		The Federalist opposition to the war and their hints of secession were, in retrospect, viewed as unpatriotic and disloyal.
	www.jmu.edu /madison/center/main_pages/madison_archives/life/biography/biomenu/war.htm (1349 words)

	War of 1812 - Liberty - Themepark
		It was captured by the British in 1813 during the War of 1812.
		In the War of 1812, William Henry Harrison was a military commander who fought at the Battle of Thames and defeated the British forces there which were heavily supplemented with Native American fighters.
		The War of 1812 between England and the United States was partly a result of ill feelings on the part of the U.S. about how England treated neutral countries during the Napoleonic Wars of 1803-1814.
	www.uen.org /themepark/liberty/warof1812.shtml (1036 words)

	Using Virginia Civil War Records (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Office of the Adjutant General, Case Files of Applications for Presidential Pardons from Former Virginia Confederates, 1865—1867.
		War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
		The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwehave/mil/rn14_usingcivwar.htm (1891 words)

	State Capitol / Visitor Services: North Carolina Office of Archives & History
		For North Carolina, the war began at the Capitol.
		Legend has it that the first blood shed for North Carolina during the war occurred that day as a bulldog, startled by a gun salute, severely bit one of the cannoneers of Manly's Battery in the seat of his pants.
		On April 13, 1865, however, Raleigh and the Capitol began to experience the war firsthand as Gen. William T. Sherman's army, led by Judson Kilpatrick's Third Cavalry Division, marched into town, beginning the occupation of the city by the Federal Army.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/capitol/stat_cap/civwar.htm (858 words)

	Old Prussians
		The Old Prussians or Baltic Prussians (German: Pruzzen or Prußen; Latin: Pruteni; Latvian: Prui; Lithuanian: Prusai; Polish: Prusowie) were an ethnic group, made up of the Baltic tribes that inhabited Prussia, the lands of the southeastern Baltic Sea in the area around the Vistula and Curonian Lagoons.
		The land of the Old Prussians consisted approximately of central and southern East Prussia — the present-day Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland, the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, and the southern Klaipeda Region of Lithuania.
		Because of the conquest of the Old Prussians by Germans, the Old Prussian language probably became extinct with the decimation of the rural population by the plague of 1701, but translations of the Bible, Old Prussian poems, and some other texts survived and have enabled scholars to reconstruct the language.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Prussian_people.html (2475 words)

	Dan Goldstein's Articles: Haditha, War Crimes and an Act of Conscience
		The war at its inception was a violation of international law, the UN Charter, and US law because it was not sanctioned by the UN and was not undertaken in self defense.
		The war in its conduct is a violation of all of the above as well as the Army’s Law of Land Warfare because of the indiscriminate killing of civilians, collective punishment in Fallujah and elsewhere and torture and mistreatment of prisoners.
		By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath.” He informed his superiors and asked to be assigned to duties not directly connected to the war, or to resign from the Army.
	dangoldstein.blogspot.com /2006/06/haditha-war-crimes-and-act-of.html (1244 words)

	Constitution, Mexican War (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because the European wars had ended and this was the only way military institutions were teaching battle engagements from study of those wars.
		"Old Bory," as he was often called by his men didn't last long at the Point when he became well known for his secessionist views and loyalty affirmations.
		President Lincoln turned to his old war horse, "Old Fuss and Feathers," Winfield Scott to devise a plan against the Southern forces of the Confederacy.
	civilwarmini.com /chapcc.htm (1659 words)

	Kazutoshi Hando, The Pacific War Research Society, Japan's Longest Day (Tokyo: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1968), pp. ...
		This Supreme War Council--or "inner Cabinet"--consisted of Japan's Big Six: the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of War, the Minister of the Navy, and the chiefs of the General Staffs of both the Army and the Navy.
		The rebels had occupied the War Office, Tokyo police headquarters, and the residence of the prime minister before the Emperor himself was forced to intervene, commanding the minister of war to take action.
		Old, confused by the events of the past few days, and vacillatory by nature, he was soon persuaded that the American reply meant, in reality, the end of the Imperial structure.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/hando/hando.htm (11264 words)

	Aftermath Newsclips: Huge Toll of first war PoWs revealed
		The estimate, which is close to one known to civil servants soon after the war ended in 1918 but unpublished for 70 years, is nearly double the officially announced figure.
		But research for the programme shows that the 1919, a year after the war, British officials found that a total of 22,000 prisoners were unaccounted for.
		War memorials list thousands of their names only as "missing", a term normally used for untraced battlefield victims.
	www.aftermathww1.com /pows.asp (823 words)

	War and Anti-War Films
		Themes explored in war films include combat, survivor and escape stories, tales of gallant sacrifice and struggle, studies of the futility and inhumanity of battle, the effects of war on society, and intelligent and profound explorations of the moral and human issues.
		War films have often been used as 'flag-waving' propaganda to inspire national pride and morale, and to display the nobility of one's own forces while harshly displaying and criticizing the villainy of the enemy, especially during war or in post-war periods.
		The Big Parade (1925) was a new kind of war film, and the first to realistically portray the horrors of battle and the struggle for survival by three soldier-comrades (a bartender, a riveter, and a millionaire's son) in the trenches.
	www.filmsite.org /warfilms.html (2566 words)

	Should Old Glory Fly over the Capitol? (January 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the inception of the war, Lincoln himself repeatedly emphasized that it was secession, not slavery, that drove him to wage war against the Confederate states: "We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose."
		Initially raising a war army without congressional consent, he actually had members of the Maryland legislature arrested and jailed without trial simply because he suspected they might vote for secession.
		We also shouldn't forget that while Lincoln was sending hundreds of thousands of young men to their deaths on the front lines, he safely ensconced his own son on the staff of General Grant.
	www.fff.org /comment/ed0100e.asp (729 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Additional War Funds Considered
		Less than two weeks after Congress approved nearly $11 billion for the war in Yugoslavia, the White House and congressional leaders have begun discussing the need for additional "emergency" funding to continue the air war or, possibly, to send in ground troops.
		But to assuage GOP concerns that the two-month-old war will exhaust U.S. defense resources and set back congressional efforts to boost overall military readiness, the White House signaled a willingness to continue to finance the war out of the budget surplus rather than stay within the spending limits agreed to earlier.
		Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob "Jack" Lew wrote to Hastert May 26 that the administration would seek supplemental funding for the war "to the extent that these requirements exceed an amount that could be managed within the normal reprogramming process without harming military readiness.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/daily/june99/spend2.htm (588 words)

	Marching Toward War: Spain's Civil War
		War's horrors are powerfully re-enacted in this segment that has an underlying message about foreign involvement in the Spanish Civil War.
		The war is made memorable by the march of 150,000 refugees over 100 miles from Malaga to Almeria.
		The bombing is "more than an instrument of destruction"—the woman and her son are "human guinea pigs" to test a theory of war that the victor of the next world war will be those that strike first at enemy civilians.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA04/wood/mot/html/spain.htm (2083 words)

	Same old, same old - War Room - Salon.com
		This is the same Army War College, by the way, that produces research and scholarship, some critical of Bush's policy in Iraq and on the war on terror, that Bush chooses to ignore, including Jeffrey Record's January report that called the Iraq war unnecessary and a "detour" from the war against global terrorism.
		Another Army War College strategist accused the Bush administration of seeking to win "quickly and on the cheap" in Iraq while ignoring the more important goal of creating a stable, democratic nation.
		When Bush spoke at the War College crowd tonight, though, the crowd was clearly stacked with friendly supporters who whooped and hollered despite the obvious reason Bush was appearing before them: His desperate need to salvage his standing at home and around the world as his misguided and destructive Iraq policy continues to unravel.
	www.salon.com /politics/war_room/2004/05/24/bush_speech/index.html?calendar=200709 (872 words)

	War reporters push tech limits - Technology & Science - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was 1846 and the electric telegraph was barely 10 years old, but Kendall’s resourceful use of the new technology began the love affair between war correspondents and gadgetry that has endured ever since.
		But once developed, getting war images into daily newspapers across the country was much easier by World War II, thanks to the invention of the “photo wire.” Wire transmission of photography had been developed in the late 1920s, and perfected by Bell Labs in the 1930s.
		For many observers of war correspondent technology, the videophone is the holy grail, finally allowing journalists to bring viewers as close as possible to the front lines, letting people see for themselves the war as it unfolds.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3078676 (2409 words)

	Old hands stoke anti-war effort - Special Coverage Archive - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		THE OLD HANDS are participating at every level of the budding effort to avert a military conflict with Iraq, circulating petitions, bombarding newspapers and lawmakers with letters, email and faxes, organizing demonstrations and forming new coalitions.
		The media, which was instrumental in galvanizing opposition to the war in Vietnam, also has contributed to the perception that there is little opposition to a war with Iraq by largely ignoring the anti-war movement, the activists say.
		The reason, he said, is that Pentagon’s strategy of relying on surgical air strikes to soften up an enemy serves the dual purpose of preventing TV networks and newspapers from showing the graphic battlefield images that helped fuel opposition to the Vietnam War.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3071628 (1066 words)

	Museum - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		In its present location since 1845, Florida's historic Old Capitol was expanded several times, although it retains the original floor plan in the center of the building.
		In 1978, the last state employees vacated the stately, time-worn structure, which, after selective demolition, was restored to its 1902 appearance and opened as a museum in 1982.
		Today, The Old Capitol's special exhibits interpret the state's political history, constitutions, and the history of the building.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /museum/sites/oldcapitol (117 words)

	Preservation Office History Page
		The Executive Office of the President (EOP) agencies moved in officially in 1947 after the last of the original occupants, the State Department, moved out.
		The first EOP agencies to move into the old State Building (as the OEOB was known) were the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) and the National Security Council.
		The Office of the Administration shall, upon request, assist the White House Office in performing its role of providing those administrative services which are primarily in direct support of the President.
	clinton3.nara.gov /WH/EOP/OA/OAPO (642 words)

	The Civil War in Louisiana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Between April 17,1862 and May 18, 1864 20 major Civil War battles and engagements were fought in on Louisiana soil.
		Ballads, poems, novels, historical accounts and screen-plays have described, explained and at times glamorized the "War Between the States," or the Civil War.
		On both sides, young and old alike, confident of a rapid victory, enthusiastically joined the cause, fighting bravely for what they believed.
	www.crt.state.la.us /tourism/civilwar/civilwar.htm (190 words)

	Mexican War (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the war, the SC General Assembly commissioned medals for the Palmetto Regiment veterans.
		The flag survived the Civil War and accompanied the 2nd SCVI to Cuba in the Spanish-American War, becoming the only American flag to fly victorious over two foreign countries.
		The regimental flag was given to the State of SC in 1900 and became part of the SC Confederate Relic Room and Museum collection.
	www.state.sc.us /crr/mexwar.htm (439 words)

	The Iraq War Has Only Set Back Middle East Reform
		Moreover, had the United States employed its power and international support after the Afghan war to support reformers in the region and push for Arab-Israeli peace, the Middle Eastern reform would be much farther along.
		In a survey I conducted last year (with Zogby International) in six Arab countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates), the vast majority of Arabs did not believe that American policy in Iraq was motivated by the spread of democracy in the region.
		The Iraq war has demonstrated what should have been known all along: The United States has the power the reshuffle the deck in the Middle East but not the power to guarantee where the cards will fall.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/telhami/20050314.htm (851 words)

	Ministry of Defence \| About Defence \| History \| History of the Old War Office \| The Old War Office Building
		General agreement about the need for a new War Office building first led to proposals in the late 1850âs for its inclusion in government offices in Downing Street, then in the late 1860âs for a new building on Great George Street to house both the Admiralty and War Office.
		With the outbreak of War in August 1914, the General Staff left to take up posts with the deployed Army in France and Flanders and many retired officers from the Reserve of Officers were re-employed to fill the now vacant War Office posts.
		On 9th October 1914 the Office of Works informed the Treasury that the space requirements of the War Office could best be met by the erection of an additional storey on the top of the War Office Building.
	www.mod.uk /DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/History/HistoryOfTheOldWarOffice/TheOldWarOfficeBuilding.htm (1492 words)

	Washington, D.C. -- Places To Tour -- Old Post Office Building
		Tours of the Old Post Office Tower provide visitors with the history of the building, a breathtaking vista from the 315-foot clock tower and a view of the Congress Bells.
		Despite all these features, the word "old" was attached to the building only 15 years after it was completed, and someone's description of the clock tower as an "old tooth" became the rallying cry to tear it down.
		The Old Post Office is a fixture on America's "Main Street," a symbol that the nation's older structures can be saved and given a new life.
	www.tourofdc.org /tours/OldPostOffice (1065 words)

	Old Executive Office Building
		The Old Executive Office Building, a National Historic Landmark, was built between 1871 and 1888.
		The building continues to house various agencies that comprise the Executive Office of the President, such as the Office of the Vice President, the Office of Management and Budget and the National Security Council.
		To make a reservation, please call the Preservation Office between the hours of 9:00 am and noon, Tuesdays or Wednesdays at 202/395-5895, and have available legal name, date of birth, country of citizenship, and Social Security number for each visitor.
	www.cr.nps.gov /NR/travel/wash/dc32.htm (344 words)

	Press Release
		In their press release, the DoD stated that during the Cold War, "commanders had a variety of awards" to recognize the service and sacrifice of service men and women.
		There was no unique medal for Cold War service per se, and again DoD has chosen to turn a blind eye to the "service and sacrifice" of that period.
		The significance of the Cold War has been verbally acknowledged by our national leaders, yet no other period of service was recognized by a certificate in lieu of a service medal.
	www.coldwarveterans.com /press_release.htm (461 words)

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