Medal of Honor Day is a United States federal observance that is celebrated every year on March 25. It was created to honor the
"heroism and sacrifice of Medal of Honor recipients for the United States." The holiday has been celebrated since 1991, when George
H. W. Bush signed Public Law 101-564 on November 15, 1990, which       
was passed by the 101st U.S Congress.
    
    
    
   

George Herbert Walker Bush
(June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018)

In an aerial view, immigrants pass through coils of razor wire while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.

Illegal immigrants stormed the US border recently in El Paso and knocked over guards amid standoff over Texas law.

Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024)

Longtime character actor M. Emmet Walsh has died. The
actor, known for his roles in films like Knives Out,
My Best Friend’s Wedding, Blade Runner, The Jerk, 
Romeo + Juliet, and more, died of cardiac arrest on
Tuesday, March 19. He was 88.

Walsh’s manager, Sandy Joseph, said he died at Kerbs
Memorial Hospital in St. Albans, Vermont. 

Walsh has been a working actor in Hollywood since his first
role in 1969 in Alice’s Restaurant. He racked up over 200
onscreen credits throughout his long career.

The  Jerk (1979)

Blade Runner (1982)

Blood Simple (1984)

It all started in this little white schoolhouse in Wisconsin.

In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party met to
establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the
western territories. The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834
to oppose the “tyranny” of President Andrew Jackson, had
shown itself incapable of coping with the national crisis over
slavery.

With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
of 1854 that dissolved the terms of the Missouri Compromise
and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories
by popular sovereignty, the Whigs disintegrated.

By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the
upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party
and one such meeting, in Wisconsin was on this day in 1854 and
is generally remembered as the birth of the Republican Party.