Category: Rapid City

Meeting: Reclaiming Our Republic

Meeting: Reclaiming Our Republic

Conservatives will be meeting in Rapid City on Saturday, January 16 from 9:00am to 11:30 am at the south side Pizza Ranch.

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Education: What Children Should Know Upon Graduation

Education: What Children Should Know Upon Graduation

There will be a meeting on curriculum and the Constitution Saturday with presentations from Mark the Freedom Poet, South Dakota Sen. Phil Jensen, South Dakota Rep. Lynn DiSanto, South Dakota House Candidate Tim Goodwin and Rapid City School Board Member Kate Thomas.

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The Freedom Club in Rapid City

South Dakota will see it’s first Freedom Club event in Rapid City on Saturday November 21 at 9:30.

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Children at the University of Santo Tomas internment camp right after liberation by US forces, 1945.

Rapid City Woman to Speak About WW2 Japanese-Occupied Philippines‏

Evelyn Lenton of Rapid City will talk about her childhood memories of the Japanese in Occupied Philippines during World War II, along with her midwife mother and three brothers, in Manila. One brother, Arthur age 15, was taken off to harvest crops and was never seen again.

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WW2 British Fighter Pilot Will Speak on September 12

WW2 British Fighter Pilot Will Speak on September 12

On Saturday, September 12, John F. Wilkinson of Spearfish will talk about his WWII experiences as a Spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force. He flew Hurricanes too. His daughter was later born in Montana. Sponsored by the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group, the event will take place at EAFB’s South Dakota Air and Space Museum, 9:00-1130 am (first half hour is social period).

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Photo credit: Michael Vadon

There’s Just Something About Trump

Failure to exercise their constitutional authority to put the executive branch in check will be the final nail in the coffin for establishment Republicans trying to stop the anti-Washington, Trump movement.

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Thunderbird

Dakota Thunder 2015 at Ellsworth AFB

Dakota Thunder 2015 was held at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota today. There were plenty of amazing aircraft on display and in the air today, both old and new. Ages of the aircraft ran from the World War II era, to the newest fighter, the F-35.

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U.S. Navy Task Force 38 aircraft attack the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Musashi (foreground) and a destroyer in the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944.

Rapid City Sailor will Talk about WW2 Battle of Leyte

Harold G. Jansen of Rapid City will talk about his experiences as a US Navy Ensign during World War II when the US sought to retake the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf late in October 1944.

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Declaration of Independence: 239th Anniversary of the Public Reading

Declaration of Independence: 239th Anniversary of the Public Reading

Today at noon, Mark the Freedom Poet re-enacted the first public reading the Declaration of Independence in front of “Founding Fathers Black Hills,” the recreation of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall near Rapid City.

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The Declaration in the Black Hills

The Declaration in the Black Hills

Mark Skogerboe, the Freedom Poet, will be in period costume reading the Declaration of Independence in front of “Founding Fathers Black Hills,” the recreation of Independence Hall out by Reptile Gardens, Wednesday July 8 at noon. The reading is free and open to the public for those who would like to hear our nation’s founding document read as it was in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall some 239 years ago. The Liberty Bell will ring throughout the day, every hour on the hour.

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