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In order to research and pay tribute to military veterans, on July 23, 2007 John E. Anderson of veterantributes.org submitted a SF 180 - Request Pertaining To Military Records form to the United States National Personnel Records Center for information about the highly–decorated Vietnam-War era Prisoner of War George Thomas Coker under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. § 552). The reply on August 20, 2007 was accompanied by the following documents:
Nikola Tesla
a Serbian inventor
The current Proofread of the Month is
Poems (1890) by
Emily Dickinson.
- Lyrics
- Irving Berlin
- First line
- Sadie Cohen left her happy home
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