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Memorial Day, 1942. Five months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands gathered along Constitution Avenue and the streets of Washington, DC for a Memorial Day parade, honoring the sacrifices made, and those to come.

For sixty-two years, Constitution Ave. fell silent on the military's most sacred holiday, as the tradition of a Memorial Day parade faded away.  Until 2004.  When the American Veterans Center proudly revived the tradition, and today, it's the nation's largest Memorial Day event.  Join us as we honor the sacrifice once more at the 2024 National Memorial Day Parade - Monday, May 27 at 2:00 PM along Constitution Avenue.  And watch LIVE here at the AVC's YouTube channel, then on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox stations around the country, and around the world on American Forces Network! 

Tank-On-Tank Combat: Destroying Hitler's Panzer Division ==>  https://youtu.be/42tacO27He0 

8 May, 1945, 79 years ago. Across Europe and the United States, celebrations of jubilance and joy break out with the German Instrument of Surrender - V-E Day.  Among the witnesses to the Germans' act of military surrender to General Eisenhower at SHAEF was D-Day veteran of the third wave at Omaha Beach, Louis Graziano. AVC was honored to capture his story, the last known witness to the final end of Hitler's Reich:  https://youtu.be/_jgEOAsFrxo 

Combat In The Sky: 136 Combat Missions Across Three Wars ==>  https://youtu.be/ktW2yg53FnA 

Frozen Hell: Marine on Close-quarters Combat Across Korean Peninsula ==>  https://youtu.be/OZzI06QsEzk 

Rolling Across Nazi Germany and Liberating Dachau Concentration Camp | Watch ==>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQI9M... 

FDNY Firefighter and 9/11 First Responder on Reaching World Trade Center | Watch ==>  https://youtu.be/_i3wfA5sP2w 

INFANTRY COMBAT: Decorated for Valor in Iraq ==>  https://youtu.be/0ZY3gLM_U_Q 

FIGHTING BACK Germans with a GREASE GUN | Watch ==>  https://youtu.be/CzOjOluPmG8 

Lockered “Bud” Gahs was drafted into service in 1943. He would join the esteemed 42nd Infantry Division, famously known as the "Rainbow Division". Initially serving as a truck driver, he would be sent to France in 1944, along with the rest of the 42nd Rainbow men, to face the German counteroffensive near Strausburg.

On January 25, 1945 Gahs and his unit took up defensive positions in the town of Schweghausen. Gahs, along with a few other men occupied a two-story building where they repelled an onslaught of German soldiers trying to overrun the position. For his actions on that day Gahs would be awarded the Bronze Star.

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