So far so good, fear-belong-lines from a planned protest at the enhanced security scanning at the airports around the country haven't apparently happened. Kirk Seydler with Colorado Public Radio is at Dan Branche International Airport. He says travel

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember with Faith Lapidus. This Monday is Memorial Day in the United States. The holiday honors the memory of the nation's military dead. FAITH LAPIDUS: One way to preserve a me

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THIS IS AMERICA - Six Men, a World War, a Pacific Island and an Image for All Time STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember with Barbara Klein. This Monday is Memorial Day in the United States. The holiday honor

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The presidential candidates will spar for a second time tonight, but this time in a town-hall setting, taking questions from voters. NPR's Ron Elving says each man is looking to make big gains at New York's Hofstra University. This represents the bes

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Semper Fi means Always Faithful. Its the motto of the Marine Corps, which is a segment of the US Navy. The Marines do whatever the federal government tells them to do, and the government always talks about how important the Marines are and how gratef

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1.Alabama police are searching for an attorney abducted near her office in downtown Birmingham, Alabama this morning. Witnesses say a gunman approached 34-year-old Sandra Eubank Gregory and forced her

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Nick Simeone In Iraq, a U.S. military commander said an agreement has been reached with leaders in the city of Fallujah that could ease a two week standoff between Sunni militants and 1,200 American M

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Residents on the Pacific island of Guam are bracing for big changes. Four years from now, the U.S. military plans to transfer thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa. The move is part of a larger military realignment in the region an

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The Iwo Jima Memorial and the Famous Photograph that Inspired It From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. I'm Steve Ember. Visitors to Washington, DC know about such tourist attractions as the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorialsthe World Wa

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AS IT IS 2016-03-23 US Sets Up First All-American Fire Base in Iraq 美国在伊拉克建立第一个全美火力基地 The U.S. military has built the first all-American fire base in Iraq. A fire base is an area in a war zone where artillery can be

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February 19th 1945.Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

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February 19th 1945.Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

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February 19th 1945. Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

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February 19th 1945.Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

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February 19th 1945.Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

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By Akiko Fujita Tokyo 11 November 2009 US Marine Corps helicopters, transport planes sit on tarmac of Futenma Marine Corps Air Station next to Okinawa residential quarters (file photo) The relocation of a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa is expected to b

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A 2,000-strong unit of U.S. Marines began moving ashore west of Port-au-Prince at dawn on Tuesday to help deliver relief to victims of last week's earthquake. Some U.S. troops landed by helicopter at the presidential palace, where crowds of Haitians

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The American has lost an aircraft carrier but Japanese has lost 4. 美国损失了一艘航空母舰,但日军损失了4艘 This is the first Japanese defeat and it boosts the Ally's morale. 这是日军的首次挫败,对同盟国的士气是一大

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After that the marines are able to capture the airfield之后陆军战队攻占了机场 they secure it and enlarge the runway for the first plane's of airborne marines called Black Sheep Squadron建立防护后扩大其跑道以便首批空降陆战队

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Thousands of United States Marines and other troops are moving into Haiti to assist with relief efforts one week after the country's deadly earthquake. Also Tuesday, the United Nations authorized sending more peacekeepers and police to the devastated

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