Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 4,435 US dead War of 1812 1812 to 1815 2,260 US dead Mexican War 1846 to 1848 1,773 US dead Civil War 1861 to 1865 approx. 600,000 USA/CSA dead Spanish Amer. War 1898 2,446 US dead WWI 1917 -1918 116, 516 US dead WWII 1941-1945 405, 399 US dead Korean [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Remember the Reason For Memorial Day
May 30, 2011
100 Years of the Indy 500 Began With the Dream of a Visionary
May 29, 2011
On This Date In History: Not all success stories are college graduates or even college drop outs. On this date in 1909, entrepreneur Carl Graham Fisher was looking ahead to a big day. In just a 3 days, he was going to stage the first race at the Indianpolis Motor Speedway . Four days later [...]
Mother’s Day, aka Mothering Sunday
May 8, 2011
On This Date in History: I had always assumed that Mother’s Day was invented by some card company like Hallmark. I was wrong. It was just hijacked by the entreprenuerial spirit of America! There’s all sorts of stuff about it going back to the early church and then going on through the 17th century in [...]
