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Glenna Goodacre, First Memorial in the United States Capital Honoring Women's Military Service, US Library of Congress, November 11, 1993

This is the first memorial to be placed in the nation's capital in honor of the military service of women. It is on the grounds of the Vietnam…

Tags: Military Service, Public Architecture, Washington D.C., Women

Inside Today’s Military/ United States Armed Forces oath of enlistment, Oath of Enlistment, US Military, No date given

"I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and…

Tags: Enlistment Oath, Military Service, Oaths

None, Zachary Fisher, Founder Fisher House Foundation, Fisher House, None

Zachary Fisher couldn’t join the army when he was younger due to a leg injury, but was determined to support them in any way he could throughout the…

Tags: Armed Services, Military Service, Sea-Air-Space Museum, Zachary Fisher

Bain News Service, Helen Gould, Army Supporter, Library of Congress, 22 January 1913

You don’t have to be a soldier to help the war effort, and Helen Shepard proved that when she gave $100,000 to the United States government during the…

Tags: Education, Helen Gould Miller Shepard, Military Service, Philanthropy, War, Women

U.S. Government Printing Office, United States Coast Guard, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960

The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization within the Department of Homeland…

Tags: Maritime, Military Service, Security, USGC

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Day Posters 1978 to 2014, U.S. Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, 1991 - First Poster, 1987 - Second Poster

Each year since 1978 the Department of Veterans Affairs publishes a commemorative Veterans Day poster. The poster is selected through a competition…

Tags: Military Service, Tribute, Veterans Day

John Clifton, 2001 - Colin L. Powell, First African American Secretary ofState, US Department of Defense., 1989

Colin Luther Powell was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African…

Tags: African-Americans, Colin Powell, Military Service, Secretary of State

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., 1st. African American General in the Regular Army & U.S. Armed Forces, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, No date given

"My own opinion was that blacks could best overcome racist attitudes through achievements, even though those achievements had to take place within the…

Tags: African-Americans, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., General, Military Service, War

U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel Mercedes O. Cubria, First Cuban Born Female in the U.S. Army, U.S. Army, unknown

Lieutenant Colonel Mercedes O. Cubria (1903-1980), a.k.a. La Tia (The Aunt), was the first Cuban-born female officer in the U.S. Army. She served in…

Tags: Cuba, Mercedes O. Cubra, Military Service, U.S. Army

James Montgomery Flagg, U.S. Army Recruitment Poster, Library of Congress, 1917

"A war recruitment poster of ‘Uncle Sam’ pointing out and imploring others to join the US army.

The famous war recruitment poster that is well…

Tags: Military Service, Recruitment, U.S. Army, War