Working Dogs Kept Telephone Lines Open on Mount Rainier
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Little Orphan Annie, The Comic Strip
The comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, was created by a young cartoonist by the name of Harold Gray (1894-1968). Gray’s parents both died before he had finished school, so he
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Revolutionary War: The Women Who Should be Remembered
During the Revolutionary War, there were numerous women who heroically stood up for the Patriots’ cause, yet so often the stories we hear take on the aspect of myth. Betsy
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Amy Carter and her Tree House: Growing Up in the White House
When the Carter family moved into the White House in January of 1977, Rosalyn and Jimmy made it clear that Amy, the youngest of their four children and the only
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Book on World War II Sheds Light on Combat Stress
In her book, Hidden Legacy of WWII: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery, author Carol Schultz Vento makes the compelling point that most books about World War II veterans have left an 
important part of the story untold–that of combat stress. Little is said about the soldiers for whom it wasn’t a “good war.” Many came home with the same psychological demons we hear about with returning soldiers today.
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In Celebration of National Park Week: Admission to Parks is Waived
This is National Park Week (April 21-29) and it is a perfect time to pause and consider how fortunate we are for the Park Service and for the lands and monuments that Congress has designated to be national treasures. Whether you are interested in preserving parklands, maintaining areas that depict geological changes, or saving monuments and lands that tell our American story, the National Park Service provides an enormous service to the American people by safeguarding these lands as part of our national heritage.
And if you can possibly sneak away this week to visit one of the parks’ 394 properties, you should: those that charge admission are waiving fees for the week.
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