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Gen. Marshall may be holding a map on this trip, but when traveling, Marshall liked to read Westerns.
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#OTD 1950, Gen. George Marshall, then serving as president of the American Red Cross, spoke Virginia Military Institute graduation, 49 years after he graduated there.
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Today is the summer #Solstice -- the longest day of the year. A good day to read Shakespeare's 'A midsummer night's dream,' but I don't think that's what George and Katherine Marshall were reading #OTD 1956.
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Pt. 6
I love this photo of William Friedman at their library desk, probably taken by #ElizebethSmithFriedman . See how their collection is organized in the background? We kept the same organization in the Friedman room at the #MarshallFoundationLibrary
Enjoy Stephanie "LB" 🟧 & fans!

#OTD 1944, #DDay +6, the Combined Chiefs & Prime Minister Churchill crossed the Channel to Normandy & spent several days learning.
The Chiefs from England & the U.S. in France, less than a week after the beach landings. Wow.
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#TuesdayTreat
The Joint Chiefs kept a low profile while secretly visiting the small Allied holdings in Normandy. No ceremonies, no bands, no flags. A few ASC photographers.
Here's Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Eisenhower washing for supper.
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#TuesdayTreat
Three general officers, three different uniforms.
Gen. George Marshall, Brig. Gen. Asa Singleton, Maj. Gen. Walter Short at Fort Benning (now Fort Moore), Apr. 23, 1940, during Third Army maneuvers.
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Pt. 7
Look, there's the topic of William and #ElizebethSmithFriedman 's research -- William Shakespeare.
Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C.
Enjoy, Stephanie "LB" 🟧 and Elizebeth fans!
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Happy 248th birthday to the U.S. Army!
Gen. George Marshall and President Franklin Roosevelt celebrating in 1942.
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Today is #WomensVeteransDay and there are SO MANY photos of WAAC/WAC soldiers in #WWII here at the #MarshallFoundationLibrary !

You Can Never Have Too Many Books.
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When 20th-century history is always on your mind --

Saw a billboard the other day for 'Fortress Foundation,' and I was looking for a B-17.
It was an ad for restoring cracked foundations ...
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Released my first ever Visual Studio Code extension!

It's often helpful to send a project tree to co-workers, friends, or even GPT4. This extension allows you to quickly generate a formatted text hierarchy of your project that can be copy/pasted wherever you like.

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$60 million mansion!! 😍🤩

Ed Barnard
Interesting note resulted in a blog about the B-29 -- marshallfoundation.org/articles-and-f…
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#MondayMemories
The Marshall family, summer 1907, on a break from Fort Leavenworth.
l to r: brother Stuart, Lily, George, sister Marie, mother Laura, father George, Sr.
This is the last family photo I have, as George Sr. died two years later.
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#Juneteenth2023
'When you are calling on the man to risk his life in the service of the country, he had every right, it would certainly seem, to demand the same rights of the other fellow who was risking his life.'
Gen. George C. Marshall Feb. 20, 1957
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there would be little time for the business of conducting the war ...'
Gen. George C. Marshall in a letter to Vincent Elmore, Sept. 16, 1942
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