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Textbooks often depict the final snapshot of the 101st Airborne paratroopers leading students up the school steps in 1957 as the finale to the desegregation crisis in Little Rock.
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Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Family, friends, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division and national leaders gathered to remember a soldier, husband and father whose resilience inspired a nation.
—Jasmine Baehr , Jennifer Griffin, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
It’s hosted by the affable Paul de Gelder, a former Australian Navy bomb disposal diver and Army paratrooper who survived a bull shark attack in 2009.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2025
The North Carolina Army base that was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 went back to being known as Fort Bragg in honor of World War II paratrooper Roland Bragg, instead of its original eponym, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 18 July 2025
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Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Family, friends, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division and national leaders gathered to remember a soldier, husband and father whose resilience inspired a nation.
—Jasmine Baehr , Jennifer Griffin, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
It’s hosted by the affable Paul de Gelder, a former Australian Navy bomb disposal diver and Army paratrooper who survived a bull shark attack in 2009.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2025
The North Carolina Army base that was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 went back to being known as Fort Bragg in honor of World War II paratrooper Roland Bragg, instead of its original eponym, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 18 July 2025
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“Paratrooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paratrooper. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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