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a person engaged in military service
one of the goals of war is to keep as many soldiers as possible from being killed
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During this conflict, American citizen soldiers wielding standard hunting rifles were able to use their skills to pick off British officers and soldiers from greater distances than the soldiers could retaliate from.
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
The video circulated yesterday, as the IDF announced the deaths of 8 soldiers and many more injuries.
—NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
By 1862, a majority of the 11 Confederate states established absentee voting by their soldiers.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
During the Civil War, soldiers who would normally need to take a few days to return home to cast a vote were allowed to do so at the battlefield, and those votes were mailed back to the proper precinct.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Snipers and their rifles are some of the most iconic soldiers in modern warfare.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
Letters from Private Isaac Walters of the 20th Indiana Infantry’s Company F to his sister-in-law describe sick and injured soldiers sent from Virginia to Indiana to vote days before the presidential election after the state failed to enact absentee voting.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
As The New York Times reported, the current Israeli campaign—which also includes an ongoing ground incursion into South Lebanon that has already resulted in deadly clashes, with eight Israeli soldiers killed on Wednesday—did not begin in Lebanon but next door in Syria.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon.
—NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
The video circulated yesterday, as the IDF announced the deaths of 8 soldiers and many more injuries.
—NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
By 1862, a majority of the 11 Confederate states established absentee voting by their soldiers.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
During the Civil War, soldiers who would normally need to take a few days to return home to cast a vote were allowed to do so at the battlefield, and those votes were mailed back to the proper precinct.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Snipers and their rifles are some of the most iconic soldiers in modern warfare.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
Letters from Private Isaac Walters of the 20th Indiana Infantry’s Company F to his sister-in-law describe sick and injured soldiers sent from Virginia to Indiana to vote days before the presidential election after the state failed to enact absentee voting.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
As The New York Times reported, the current Israeli campaign—which also includes an ongoing ground incursion into South Lebanon that has already resulted in deadly clashes, with eight Israeli soldiers killed on Wednesday—did not begin in Lebanon but next door in Syria.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon.
—NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
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