June And Our Veterans: Some Dates Lest we forget (as Wikipedia never does). 0601 - Capt John Lawrence utters what would become Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" (1813) 0604 - Battle of Midway (1942) 0604 - Mexican-US war starts (1845) 0604 - U.S. Marines invade Costa Rica (1919) 0604 - Battle of Midway Island begins, Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II (1942) 0605 - Ten million U.S. men begin registering for draft (1917) 0606 - D-Day (1944) 0607 - 7,000+ WWI veterans march on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus pay (1932) 0607 - US troops in Vietnam ordered to fight offensively (1965) 0608 - Six-Day War: USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171 (1967) 0609 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty (1999) 0610 - U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba (1898) 0611 - In the American Revolution's first naval battle Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br) (1775) 0612 - First airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France (1918) 0614 - Flag Day (1777) 0614 - US Army Established by Congress (1775) 0618 - Oregon Treaty Ambiguity causes "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S.& British/Canadian settlers (1859) 0618 - U.S. Congress declares war on United Kingdom and Ireland (1812) 0622 - GI Bill Signed into law (1944) 0625 - Korean War Began (1950) 0625 - Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn (1876) 0625 - Berlin Airlift begins (1948) 0625 - Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen (1996) 0626 - After 8 years of occupation US troops leave Dominican Republic (1924) 0626 - U.S. missile attack on Baghdad in retaliation for assassination attempt on President George H.W. Bush (1993) 0628 - Treaty of Versailles ending WWI signed in France (1919) 0628 - 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson --- Regards, Walt Schmidt