May 5, 2024 - Each year the World War II Allies remember May 8th, 1945, the date when they accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his replacement, President of Germany Karl Donitz.
May 3, 2024 - Elbert Alvie was born on New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1st, 1897, the same year Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope [first movie projector]. His birthplace was the far east Texas town of Center, which serves as Shelby's county seat. His parents, Arella Margaret McGee, and Alva King Williford, raised a large family of seven boys and six girls on a Joaquin and Center Road farm.
March 24, 2024 - Shelby County Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8904, Center will be hosting a Veterans Breakfast at Tasha's Country Kitchen in San Augustine on Saturday, April 6, 2024, at 9am.
March 19, 2024 - The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 was signed into law by 45th US President Donald J. Trump, designating every March 29th as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. On March 29, 1973, 51 years ago, the last US Combat Troops departed Vietnam, and Hanoi released the last of its acknowledged prisoners of war.
March 1, 2024 - 25 years ago, on March 24, 1999, NATO launched an air campaign called “Operation Allied Force” to halt the humanitarian devastation that was then unfolding in Kosovo. The decision to intervene followed more than a year of fighting within the province and the failure of international efforts to resolve the conflict by diplomatic means.
NATO announced the suspension of the air campaign on June 10, 1999, once it had concluded a military technical agreement with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
February 26, 2024 - On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation of coalition forces from 34 nations to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. When the war ended on February 28th, 1991, 148 Americans had died in battle.