GRAFTON - The National Memorial of Military Ascent was officially dedicated Saturday morning, June 6, 2026, in Grafton on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day with an emotional, hour-long ceremony. The ceremony began at 9:30 a.m. June 6, 2026, after the Mike Burke Orchestra played military songs at 9 a.m. The dedication included colors by the Leech Lake Ojibwe Honor Guard, American Legion Post 648, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 805, followed by an invocation by NMMA Chaplain Warren Gohl and a communit
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A bronze plaque on the side of the Stadium East Parking Garage in downtown St. Louis marks the traditional burial site of Chief Pontiac, a significant Indigenous leader of the eighteenth century.
Police say the man was in Chambers Park in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood when his step-sister began arguing with him about the winning lottery ticket. She then pulled out a railroad spike and stabbed him multiple times in the head.
Sitting in the choppy waters of the English Channel the day before D-Day, twenty-year-old Private James R. Lambeth wondered what would happen on the beaches of Normandy. “We had no idea what we were getting into,” recalled Lambeth. “I’d never seen combat before, and had no idea what it would be like.” June 6 marks the anniversary of the massive D-Day invasion and Lambeth, a member of the 37th Amphibious Combat Engineers, was one of 156,000 men on Omaha Beach at
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