V International Congress Silenced Writings: Heterodoxies and Dissidences in the Iberian Peninsula and America (call for papers)
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End: May 9, 2017
Contact: congreso@escrituras-silenciadas.com
The Friends of the National World War II Memorial and the National Park Service will pay tribute to the Greatest Generation during a special event at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 2, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. commemorating the 71st anniversary of the Allied Forces Victory in the Pacific and the effective end of WWII.
As part of the ceremony, nearly twenty WWII veterans will lay wreaths at the “Freedom Wall” of the Memorial in remembrance of the more than 400,000 Americans who lost their lives during WWII.
Retired U.S. Army Colonel James L. Riffe will serve as the event’s keynote speaker and will offer personal remarks about his own service during WWII. Colonel Riffe served in the Pacific Theater of Operations from October 1944 through the end of the war. In April 1945, he commanded a unit that took part in the invasion of Okinawa.
WUSA9 Morning Anchor Mike Hydeck will serve as the event’s Master of Ceremonies.
Friends Chairman, Josiah Bunting III, will speak on behalf of Friends, and Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, Gay Vietzke, will speak on behalf of NPS. The Military District of Washington will provide military support for the event.
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