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Army Private Richard D. Bucklin was court martialed in 1974 after going AWOL in Germany and spending 4½ years living in exile in Sweden. Bucklin was a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.
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Army Major Theodore (Ted) W. Gostas was captured by the North Vietnamese in February of 1968. His wife, Johanna, worked tirelessly to secure his release.
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Pushinka, a puppy given to President John F. Kennedy by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, captured the imaginations of American children. Thousands of them wrote letters to the president asking for a puppy when Pushinka had puppies herself in 1963.
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Chinese American actor Richard Loo appeared in hundreds of movies and television shows from the 1940s through the 1970s. He was often cast as a Japanese villain in World War II movies.
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The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 represented a significant change to the ways in which immigration was managed in the U.S. In addition to making it illegal to hire illegal immigrants, the act also provided for a path to citizenship to those already residing illegally in the country.
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The iconic western song “Home on the Range” was originally a poem drafted by a Kansas doctor in 1873.
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The adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s book into the movie The Wizard of Oz took the work of nearly a dozen writers. The 1939 film was nominated for 5 Academy Awards.
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In 1947, the University of Wyoming’s decision to review textbooks for subversive and anti-American content received national press coverage. There was much controversy around the issue, but in the end academic freedom prevailed and no books were censored.
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Army Lieutenant Gustavus Doane led a small party of men on an exploration of the Snake River regions south of Yellowstone in the fall and winter of 1876. The expedition was lucky to make it back to civilization alive.
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Bent’s Fort, located in southern Colorado along the Santa Fe Trail, was an important trading and military outpost during the 1830s and 40s.