Voices of a City: Bewitching Country
Life before 1808 It is perhaps the most pleasing, the most bewitching country which the continent affords. French American writer J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur, 1782 Long before Greensboro’s […]
Voices of a City: Service & Sacrifice
Voices of a City: Greensboro North Carolina Gallery
Such things every man who has gone to war carries in his mind, and always will. You may have been lucky. You may have come back in one piece … but you didn’t escape unscathed.
Journalist Gerald Johnson, 1952
Times of war define nations and affect cities far from the battlefront, including Greensboro.
Men and women from every walk of life have offered their service and made sacrifices on behalf of the United States. Their voices are both powerful and poignant.
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Service & Sacrifice Intro Panel -
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Mexican American War -
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Vietnam War -
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Second Gulf War
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