"All we have of freedom, all we use or know -This our fathers bought for us long and long ago." ~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

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Frank Buckles salutes a color guard during Memorial Day activities at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Mo. Monday, May 26, 2008. Buckles, at 107, is the last known American World War I veteran.






A Belgian World War II veteran lays a flower on a grave during Memorial Day ceremonies at the Henri-Chapelle cemetery in Hombourg, Belgium, Saturday, May 24, 2008. This 57-acre World War II cemetery contains the graves of 7,992 Americans. About one-third of those buried died in the campaign for the Hyrtgen Forest in November and December of 1944. Another one-third perished in the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945. The remaining one-third are soldiers killed in the advance into Germany in 1945 and aviators killed throughout the war.










Graves of war veterans are decorated with U.S. flags on Memorial Day at the Presidio National Cemetery in San Francisco. Ted Stahr, dressed in Civil War garb, places a U.S. flag near the grave site of Civil War veteran Truman Head on Memorial Day at the Presidio National Cemetery in San Francisco, Monday, May 26, 2008.



US= You have a test this week on chapters 17 & 18 (you also have workbook pages due on the day of your test). Please look at the post from Sunday, May 11th for the exact page numbers. The test is on Tuesday, 5/27 for 1st, 3rd, & 5th periods & Wednesday, 5/28 for 6th period. Remember to be working on your group project...the final due date is coming up very quickly!


PacRim/IR= We will be starting a new unit this week on war & conflict. You also get to choose new seats...first come, first served, and no saving seats for others!

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