What’s “three miles up, three miles down?” (Hint: It’s in the photo at right.) In our Memorial Day post, we mentioned taking a little trip to Westminster, South Carolina; but about 20 miles west of there lies Toccoa, Georgia, and that Army Airborne hallowed ground known as Currahee. During World War II, Camp Toccoa was […]
Author: Ericka G.
“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” Franklin D. Roosevelt So often Memorial Day gets wrapped up and set aside somewhere within the happy, long weekend during which many kick off the summer season. And by all means, enjoy your long weekend […]
When the United States entered into World War I in April 1917, the United States’ Regular Army only had a strength of 108,000 men, and was woefully unprepared to enter into a global conflict.