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The Scattergood Friends School in West Branch served as a hostel from 1939-1943, giving shelter to refugees from Europe fleeing Hitler's regime.
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Eighty years wasn't too long a wait for an Iowa native to don the ceremonial cap and gown.
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The Ghost Army was kept a secret for decades after the war.
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Ninety-year-old identical twins Bonnie Smola and Donna Story spent their first 20 years together, and the next 20 years apart, before coming back together for the next half-century.
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Caleb Sinnwell, a junior at Nashua-Plainfield Jr.-Sr. High School played a pivotal role in getting the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to living and deceased members of the Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit that was kept secret for half a century after the war.
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The Congressional Gold Medal was recently awarded to living and deceased members of the Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit that was kept secret for half a century after the war.
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Erika Schwartz was born in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary in 1944, one day before Nazis sealed it off. Against all odds she and her mother survived the Holocaust, eventually moving to the United States.
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The Ames Project altered the course of the WWII and world history.
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Ninety-year-old identical twins Bonnie Smola and Donna Story spent their first 20 years together, and the next 20 years apart, before coming back together for the next half-century.