Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)


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Understanding of Traumatic Stress
The Center aims to help U.S. Veterans and others through research, education, and training on trauma and PTSD.
Check out: National Center for PTSD (via U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)

(Source: Frontlines)

General Colin L. Powell, Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff (1989 - 1993)

Da Nang Harbor, Republic of Vietnam
Mineman Second Class Franklin Marshall, a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team member, conducts a search for mines, especially those attached to ship’s hulls, circa April 1966.
The E.O.D. Team is responsible for harbor security. Several merchant ships are in the distance.
(Photographed by Ernie Filtz)
(Official U.S. Navy Photograph, U.S. National Archives.)

Machine gun crew during Korean War. (1950)
(Source: Truman Library)

European Theater of Operations, Nurses in England, 1944.
Copyprint. NAACP Collection, (LOC) Courtesy of the NAACP


29th Regiment from Connecticut at Beaufort, S.C., 1864. Attributed to Sam A. Cooley.
Copyprint (LOC)

