After the initial D-Day invasion, after many challenges and difficulties, the allies were finally sweeping across Europe.  It was during this final phase of the war that the soldiers came face-to-face with the true aspect of Nazi evil. This war had already demonstrated great amounts of the power of hate to torment and kill…

    January 1964 President Lyndon Baines Johnson announced an “unconditional war on poverty.”  The staggering amount of legislation that emanated from his first State of the Union speech as president really was unprecedented.  Connecting the vision to the revered assassinated President Kennedy and salted with his own poverty experiences empowered a nation with hope that…