Appearance of Vietnamese was always followed by changing of stage background color to red, meaning that they are good part of war and innocent for things that happened to them during the four hour massacre in the village My Lai. ... This play is really good, and you should see it and get the real picture of what happened in four-hour massacre in My Lai, and pay attention on lightening effects and you will fill the play....

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As you have may noticed I've worked half and half my service hours in two places. ... The day I went to the library, I decided to work for 5 hours, and during my time there I got to learn how the librarians shelf the videos they have there, plus I got to learn how to check in books which turned out to be the simplest job I've done there so far. ... Once there I decided to do my service hours there, my aunt took me to a place called St. ...

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At 6:45 am the U.S. destroyer Ward shoots and destroys the Japanese submarine that was spotted just 3 hours earlier. ... At 8:54 am, one hour after the first attack on Pearl Harbor, a second wave of Japan's planes arrive to continue the attack. At 10:00 am the Japanese planes begin to head back to their aircraft carrier as by a half hour later hospitals begin to pile up with wounded soldiers. ...

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According to the surgeon general, American children spend, on average, more than 4 hours a day with television, whether it is computers, videotaped movies or video games and the average amount a child that is nine to fourteen years old sleeps about 9 hours a day. This means that out of the 8760 hours of the year, 3285 is spent sleeping, so that gives you a total of 5475 hours a child is active. ...

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What was worse was that it was know that some rats tried to eat soldiers in their sleep, while they tried to get a couple hours sleep in the less bombarding daytime hours. ... This could last from a couple of hours to a couple of days. ...

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The story is described for the reader in an hour-by-hour account of the four-day battle by hundreds of different soldiers. ... Instead of marching for hours through enemy territory with a heavy pack, a solider could be flown via helicopter to any battlefront with in minuets. ... The first eighty soldiers had to face an enemy of sixteen hundred strong alone for a half hour. ... The assault began at 0830 hours with helicopter reconnaissance and American artillery firing on the LZs. At 1030 hours Company B of the 7th cavalry landed unopposed at Landing Zone X-Ray. ...

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Air Power Imagine being able to travel go faster than Mach 2, twice the speed of sound (over 1200 miles per hour), you could go around the whole world in less than 20 hours with that type of speed. ... A few historical things the B-52 did was complete a trans-world flight in 45 hours 19 minutes with only 3 in-air refuelings. ... The B-52 possessed air-to-sea surveillance capabilities "two B-52s, in two hours, can monitor 140,000 square miles (364,000 square kilometers) of ocean surface." ... At that time the wooden biplanes could only reach speeds up to 135 miles per hour. ... Modern fi...

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The Allies hoped to capture the port for 12 hours, and then take German prisoners and find information about the German defenses, but they were unsuccessful. ... At the end of the nine-hour raid, 907 Canadians were dead and 1,874 were taken prisoner by the Germans. ...

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Young people watched a greater number of hours of television than the hours they went to school. ... The families never raised their voice, and any problem that they had was always solved in half an hour, it is ironic to think that people actually believed that they were supposed to live like they did on the shows, but many of the children who watched television thought that they would grow up to have a family like those on TV. ...

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"At Loos, in September 1915, twelve attacking British battalions- about 10,000 men- lost 8,246 in just three and a half hours, mainly because of machine-gun fire." (Windrow, 18) This quote shows how thousands of men died in hours from machine-gun fires. ... "Even in "quiet" periods a constant harassing fire of a few shells an hour kept the infantry on edge and caused a steady drain of casualties." (Windrow, 21) These quote shows that even in quiet battles that lasted hours, numbers of death slowly rose. ...

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However, perhaps the most convincing and specific signs, came in the early morning hours of December 7, from a string of radar that were to guard the harbor and from patrolling vessels that spotted Japanese submarines that morning. ... In the early morning hours of Sunday, December 7, they attacked swiftly and efficiently. ...

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In the early morning hours of June 6, the American 82nd and 101st and British 6th Airborne divisions were dropped behind enemy lines to take out any threats inland from the beaches, and to cut off communications and transportation between German troops. ... Not until almost seven hours later, at 1230 hours, did the men on Omaha finally break through and start to move inland. ... Whether it was at 0700 hours or at 1230 the Allied forces advance inland to link up with the Airborne forces and created a sturdy beachhead in which to launch a breakout operation. ...

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All though his job as chief engineer required him to be at work 24 hours a day, his schedule allowed him time to experiment (Kerman pg 23). ... Initially it took 14 hours to assemble a Model T car. By improving his mass production methods, Ford reduced this time to 1 hour 33 minutes (Kerman pg14). ... In 1925 Ford was producing 10,000 cars every 24 hours. ...

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There were many warnings weeks, days, and hours leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of which remained unnoticed or altogether ignored. ... The attack on Pearl Harbor lasted around two hours and in those hours, eighteen ships were sunk or damaged, 170 aircraft were destroyed and there were approximately 3,700 US casualties. ...

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Along with the pay reductions my parents received, every overtime hour was cut. The decrease in pay, along with no overtime hours recorded, amounted for an income of $1,500 less a month. ... My mom and step-dad have both received their overtime hours back, though it is still not as many as they had, it is better than none. ...

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Within three hours of inhaling the gas your air passag e would start to close up making each breath shorter and shorter until you died. ... Germany then replied that Russia must demobilize within the next twelve hours. ...

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Chemical weapons use the toxic properties of chemical substances to produce physical or physiological effects on an enemy. These weapons come in many forms such as nerve agents that affect how the body works, or physical agents such as mustard gas which caused painful blisters internally and externa...

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He recalls how he saw his plane "crash at a speed of over 200 Miles per hour "while he was on his parachute Once he landed on enemy lines, the first thought that came to his mind was "what in the world was he going to do now ". ... It took a few hours until Sgt. ...

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The effort of the airborne division was to cut off the German lines of communication and intercept and German reinforcement troops during the first critical hours of the invasion. ... With the help of his senior commanders, Eisenhower decided to delay the incasion for twenty-four hours. ...

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Pearl Harbor was a truly fun and educational movie. This movie is of course based upon the events that happened at the Pearl Harbor naval base on the morning of December 7th, 1941, including both the time before it, and the events that followed. This movie takes place in Hawaii on the deck of nuclea...

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I quote Crown Prince Wilhelm :Each of us must keep himself fit for arms and also prepared in his mind for the great solemn hour when the Emperor calls us to the standard - the hour when we no longer belong to ourselves, but to the Fatherland with all the forces of our mind and our body; for all these faculties must be brought to the highest exertion, to that "will to victory" which has never been without success in history.:(3-4) Crown Prince Wilhelm later died on 20 July 1951 of a heart attack in Hechingen. ...

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Pearl Harbor It was quiet at the Pearl Harbor docks, where the United States Pacific Fleet was resting, on December 7, 1941, early Sunday morning. Soldiers were asleep, ammunition locked up, no man with a gun. What the people in Pearl Harbor did not know was that they were about to get attacked...

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During the school holidays, my parents decided to take me to Kota Bharu in Kelantan for a holiday. We packed some clothing enough for four days and three nights. I was very excited as I had never been to Kota Bharu before. After a few hours of driving, we finally arrived in Kota Bharu. My father too...

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World War 1 World War 1 was known as the Great war. It was the largest war the world has ever see. This war went on for four years. World War 1 started in a small province of Austria-Hungry called Bosnia. Many people in Bosnia and Serbia were angry with Austria-H...

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The telegram came to Pearl Harbor and hour to late. ... Then depth charging and sinking an un-identified submarine at the entrance of Pearl Harbor a few hours prior to the attack with out warning to the commanders of the naval ship docked in Pearl Harbor. ... Yet, President Roosevelt and the U.S. government did nothing until one hour after the attack and telegram was received stating possible attack is evident. ...

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