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  2. Nike sweatshops - Wikipedia

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    A study by the Nike-founded Global Alliance for Workers and Communities found that 70% of Nike factory workers in Thailand rated their supervisors as good, and 72% thought their income was fair. In Vietnam, most workers "thought the factory was a 'good place to work' and planned to continue at least three years," and 85% of those polled felt ...

  3. Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...

  4. Project Nike - Wikipedia

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    Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory") was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for ...

  5. List of Nike missile sites - Wikipedia

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    After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.

  6. 'Last line of defense': Cold War reheats at Nike missile ...

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    Veterans of the Nike missile base at the old Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook are telling ... Cold War reheats at Nike missile museum at Sandy Hook ... Today it gleams white as the museum’s ...

  7. Three Soldiers (statue) - Wikipedia

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    Three Soldiers (also titled Three Servicemen) is a bronze statue by Frederick Hart. Unveiled on Veterans Day, November 11, 1984, [ 1] on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., it is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial [ 2] commemorating the Vietnam War. [ 3] It was the first representation of an African American on the National Mall.

  8. Nike, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Nike, Inc. [note 1] (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, United States. [5] It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022. [6] [7]

  9. Harlingen veterans to build monument honoring Vietnam soldiers

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    As part of the project, city officials are making way for the $6,500 Vietnam Killed-in-Action Memorial Monument to stand before the Vietnam War exhibit at the Harlingen Veterans Memorial at ...