During the August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States military left behind an estimated 80 billion dollars in hardware and equipment

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Soldiers from the United States Army 4th Infantry Division captured Saddam Hussein in an underground spider hole near Tikrit on December 13, 2003

The October 1983 Beirut barracks truck bombing killed 241 United States military personnel during the Ronald Reagan administration

United States combat operations in the Vietnam War ended in 1973

The United States Congress officially renamed Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954 to honor all American military veterans

The United States Congress recognized Armistice Day via legislation in 1926 and designated it an annual federal holiday in 1938

From 1971 to 1978, the United States federal government observed Veterans Day on a Monday before returning the observance to November 11

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11, 1919, as the first Armistice Day

When captured by United States forces in December 2003, Saddam Hussein was armed with a Glock 18C pistol and carried 750,000 dollars in United States currency

Retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann participated in Operation Pineapple Express to evacuate Afghan allies during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan

The Gary Sinise Foundation organizes student educational trips to military and memorial sites including the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania

Only two United States Cabinet secretaries have been impeached in United States history: President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of War in 1876 and President Joe Biden's Homeland Security Secretary

Neither of the two United States Cabinet secretaries previously impeached by the House of Representatives was convicted by the Senate

In 2007, the Venezuelan government under Hugo Chavez expropriated property owned by United States oil corporations

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by a member of the Ku Klux Klan in 1963

The last Black United States Senator elected from Mississippi prior to Scott Davis Colomb was elected during Reconstruction in 1875 and left office in 1881

In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic Party picked up six United States Senate seats and 31 United States House of Representatives seats

The United States spent an estimated $7 trillion on military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq

The political term gerrymander originated from Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry and a district map resembling a salamander

The president of Mississippi's 1890 constitutional convention declared that delegates had gathered to exclude Black people from voting

Blanche Kelso Bruce, who was born into slavery, served a full term as an elected United States Senator representing Mississippi during Reconstruction