Format:
Book
Title:
Sacred ground : a tribute to America's veterans / [compiled by] Tom Ruck.
Call Number:
355.00973 Sacred
Publisher, Date:
Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., c2007.
Description:
xi, 189 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Subjects:
United States -- History, Military -- Sources.
Soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Veterans -- United States -- History -- Sources.
National cemeteries -- United States -- History -- Sources.
War memorials -- History -- Sources.
Soldiers' monuments -- United States -- History -- Sources.
National cemeteries -- United States -- Pictorial works.
War memorials -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Soldiers' monuments -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Other Author:
Ruck, Tom.
Contents:
Foreword / Bob Dole -- The South. Excerpt from Thayer Award acceptance address / Douglas MacArthur -- Excerpt from The crisis / Thomas Paine -- Essay / Buzz Aldrin -- "The battle hymn of the Republic" / Julia Ward Howe -- Essay / Mickey Rooney -- Excerpt from Address to the nation / George W. Bush -- The Northeast. General Orders / George Washington -- Essay / Dennis Miller -- Excerpt from Power to the people / Laura Ingraham -- Essay / Paul Teutul, Sr. -- Excerpt from Address to Congress / Woodrow Wilson -- The history of "Taps" / Jari Villanueva -- Excerpt from Memorial Day address / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- The Midwest. The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- Essay / Oliver North -- Essay / Fred Travalena -- Excerpt from Address to Congress / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Address to the Allied Expeditionary Forces / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Excerpt from the Dedication of the Maine Monument / Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain -- The West. Remarks on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day / Ronald Reagan -- Speech welcoming home returning American troops / Ann-Margret -- Excerpt from speech to the Third Army / George S. Patton -- Excerpt from "Volunteer to arms" speech / Andrew Jackson -- Remarks / Bob Hope -- Excerpt from speech at the Sixty-Fourth Annual Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration / Mike Mullen -- Excerpt from Let freedom ring / Sean Hannity -- The Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund -- The origins of the National Cemetery Administration.
ISBN:
9781596985247
1596985240