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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday was inducted in the annual National Women’s Hall of Fame. She was nominated in 2009 by President Barack Obama and made history when she was confirmed as the Court's first Hispanic justice. Sotomayor has consistently sided with the Court's liberal decisions, The Hill reported.Other 2019 National Women's Hall of Fame inductees included:• Actress Jane Fonda• Civil rights activist Angela Davis• Native American lawyer Sarah Deer• Retired Air Force fighter pilot Nicole Malachowski• The late suffragist and cartoonist Rose O’Neill• New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D), who died last year• Composer Laurie Spiegel• AIDS researcher...

The Talk Shows Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; architect Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of State; John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations; Sen. Joe Biden,...

namvets.com Welcome home Brothers and Sisters! The gang assembles for the 4th of JULY Parade in LaPorte, IN 2004 A Memorial That Tells The Truth In 1975, as the last helicopter frantically left the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, it was virtually unthinkable that a memorial to the nearly 60,000 American soldiers who had perished in the Vietnam War would one day stand on the same spot on Washington's National Mall where anti-war protest rallies had earlier gathered. Six years later, it was equally unimaginable that the just-chosen design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial would, when built, turn...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

The site is as tidy and anonymous now as a hospital room after the patient has left, or died. The slabs of pale concrete look like the beginning of something, not its end, as though at any moment workers, whistling, carrying lunch, will begin to raise the girders and frame the walls as workers have done in New York City for as long as anyone can remember. It does not look like a mass grave. It does not look like a crime scene. It does not look like a historical site. It is all of those. It looks like a...