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Memorial Day 2022
Memorial Day 2022 In honor of America’s fallen service members and Gold Star families, on Memorial Day President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden invited a small group to join them in planting a Magnolia Tree on the White House grounds. SDIT and the National League...
National Memorial Day Concert – May 26, 2019
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington, DC. The annual star-studded event features musical and dramatic performances, appearances from America's military leaders, and salutes to the fallen and their...
Memorial Day at ‘The Wall’
On May 27, two Gold Star Daughters will deliver keynote addresses as part of the annual Memorial Day commemoration at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Brigadier General Sharon Bannister (a medical doctor in the USAF), and her sister Rebecca Rusch (who is an...
John McCain 1936-2018: Statesman, Patriot, Vietnam Veteran and Returned Prisoner of War…
Download a Copy: John McCain Letters to SDIT 2000 and 2010
Adrian Cronauer: 1938-2018
At Father’s Day 1993, famed Armed Forces Vietnam Network radio deejay Adrian Cronhauer asks, “Can you say ‘Good Morning, Vietnam!’ in sign language?”
Sons and Daughters in Touch Memorial Day 2018
HONORING THE FAMILIES OF AMERICA’S FALLEN HEROES ON MEMORIAL DAY By Tony Cordero and Bonnie Carroll SDIT at the White House On June 4, three SDIT families will join a limited number of other Gold Star families — from WWII through the most...
May 2018: Families of Fallen Carry On Tradition of Resilience on Memorial Day
Each Memorial Day, Americans honor those whom we cannot personally thank: the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. History suggests that Memorial Day had its beginnings in...
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