It's been a difficult year but we have a lot to be thankful for.
Your continued support is greatly appreciated.
Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society
Native American Heritage Month honors our Native American Military Personnel at Fold3
Fold 3 honors our Native American soldiers on their blog , this month of Native American Heritage Month and also honoring Veterans Day.
Native American Contributions to the U.S. Military
Missing POW, KIA or MIA military family members? This site may help you.
Do you have missing family members from past conflicts? The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Office may be of help to you. The mission of the site, a office of accountability for military families is to
provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.
The site provides the latest information on missing military personnel from WW II to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. The agency provides this service with integrity, compassion, and respect for our nations missing and unidentified service members to their families.
The site provides lists of missing soldiers listed by state and conflict. There are 72,000 missing personnel from WWII alone that have not been accounted for. Just in Oregon alone there is 884 unaccounted for.
Please visit the site and view the work being done to bring them home.
Veterans Day November 11, 2020
Veterans Day is a annual public celebration on November 11, that honors military veterans, that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I; major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
November is Americam Indian Heritage Month
This month OPB and PBS is featuring many programs for the
American Indian Heritage Month celebration.
Indigenous voices speak out in a month long about diversity and and long
history in the United States.
Celebrate history, culture and traditions of our American Indian.
PBS and OPB - Native American Heritage
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Photo: Standing Bear
"Standing
Bear was a Ponca chief and Indigenous civil rights leader who
successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that
indigenous people are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have
the right of habeas corpus, thus becoming the first Native American
judicially granted civil rights under American law. His wife Susette
Primeau (Primo), daughter of Lone Chief/Antoine Primeau, was also a
signatory on the 1879 writ that initiated the famous court case" ~ Old Photos Facebook Community
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