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🇺🇸 108 years ago: the end of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Fought from September 26 to November 11, 1918, it was the American Expeditionary Forces' largest and bloodiest campaign of World War I.

On November 12, 1918, Marine Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commanding the 2nd Infantry Division, wrote: “On the night of November 10th, heroic deeds were done by heroic men.”

Rows of white crosses at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France honor those who never came home 🫡

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🦅 THE GOLD COIN THAT SOLD FOR $9.36 MILLION

In 1787, before the United States had a national mint, New York gold and silversmith Ephraim Brasher struck a small number of gold coins of his own.

His New York-style design shows a sun rising over a mountain, much like the New York state seal, with an eagle on the other side. Brasher punched his initials, "EB," into each coin. When New York was the nation's capital, one of his neighbors on Cherry Street was President George Washington.

Brasher doubloons are among the first gold coins struck in the newly independent United States. Only nine are known, seven of them in the New York style.

On January 21, 2021, the finest known example, with the EB on the eagle's wing, sold at Heritage Auctions for $9.36 million, then the highest price ever paid for a gold coin at auction.

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🎥 Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945: the flag raising, in color 🇺🇸

Marine Sgt. Bill Genaust stood next to photographer Joe Rosenthal and kept his 16mm color film rolling as the flag went up.

When people later claimed Rosenthal's famous photo was staged, this footage helped prove it wasn't.

Genaust was killed on Iwo Jima nine days later. His body was never recovered 🫡

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