by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
Grand Marshall James “Jay” Raffetto, Hospital Corpsman, Company B, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division Division On August 5, 2010 James “Jay” Raffetto, a young Navy Corpsman was seriously injured in Afghanistan by an IED (improvised explosive device)...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
World War II transformed the United States Armed Forces from essentially all-male to mixed-gender forces. Because of the severe need to free as many male soldiers as possible for combat, Congresswoman Edith Nurse Rogers introduced a bill in May 1941 calling for the...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
The Lukens Band, founded in 1911, was originally intended as a “more attractive and wholesome” activity than baseball, for Coatesville youth on Sunday afternoons. With the belief that “music has charms to soothe a savage beast”, Mr. and Mrs. Charles...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
The US Army Materiel Command Band was constituted on January 15, 1944 as the 389th Army band and was activated the following week at Fort Monmouth, NJ. The AMC Band has direct ties to the US Army Signal Corps Band and the 13th Cavalry Regimental Band, though it does...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
World War I was also known as “The War to End all Wars”. The underlying cause was the increasing economic and military competition between Britain and Germany; the spark that ignited it was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian...
by rmlee | Jan 22, 2017 | Annual Feature, Uncategorized
The Paoli Memorial Association was founded in 1896. It has responsibility for managing and protecting the Memorial Grounds and the gravesite, located on Monument Ave. in Malvern borough. The Memorial Grounds are the final resting place for the 53 men who were killed...
