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NOVEMBER
13
This is Really War

Discover the story of Dorothy Still, a Navy Nurse POW in WWII, who spent three years valiantly providing medical care as a prisoner in a Japanese concentration camp. 

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DECEMBER
7
80 Years of Infamy

Honor Pearl Harbor's fallen with this special commemoration event.

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Today in
History
OCTOBER
25
Today in History
1986 - USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) is commissioned at Newport News, Va.
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NMAS-Exterior Sign, 2018
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