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Other campuses experienced intense debates about the role students should take in the war. The Reserve Office Training Corps, or ROTC, became the focus both for those who supported and those who...
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The Vietnam War inspired student protests against U.S. actions on many college and university campuses, which often ended in violence between student protestors and campus or local municipal police...
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American involvement in the Vietnam War, stretching back to post-World War II support of our French ally in southeast Asia, reached a dramatic peak in 1968. That year, pilots who were trained at...
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After the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States entered the Cold War determined to retain its leadership in nuclear warfare. One of the results of the entry into...
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Recruits arrive at the Yemassee station in 1950 to begin their training as marines for the Korean War. Courtesy of the United States Marine Corps Parris Island Museum.
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In this segment, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are discussed. Korea was known as a police action, and 466 South Carolinians were killed in that conflict, and four received Medals of Honor. In...
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As a child, Major General Charles Bolden knew that he wanted to be a pilot. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Charles grew up in the 1950s, a time when a young African American boy might be...
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Colonel Charles Bolden is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. He was educated at W. A. Perry Junior High School and C. A. Johnson High School where his father was football coach and his mother, the...
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As Dr Ron McNair spoke at a University of South Carolina commencement exercise, he said, "the road between South Carolina and space flight is not a very simple one, nor is it one filled with...
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One of three astronauts inducted into the South Carolina Hall Of Fame, Ronald McNair was one of the shuttle astronauts killed in the Challenger explosion on January 28, 1986. Born and raised in Lake...