War bonds were debt securities issued by the government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. They were
also a means to control inflation by removing money from circulation from a stimulated wartime economy.

ROSS SIMPSON

Texan Dooley Wilson is best known for his role as Rick’s
friend and piano player Sam in “Casablanca.”

Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who
served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 
was dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by
thousands of veterans of the conflict. The memorial was a 
simple V-shaped black-granite wall inscribed with the
names of the 57,939 Americans who died in the conflict,
arranged in order of death, not rank, as was common in
other memorials.

John Adams Jr. (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826)

On September 27, 1779, the Continental Congress appointed John
Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge
of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain
during the Revolutionary War.

Adams had traveled to Paris in 1778 to negotiate an alliance with
France, but had been unceremoniously dismissed when Congress
chose Benjamin Franklin as sole commissioner. 

After returning to Massachusetts in mid-1779, Adams was elected
as a delegate to the state convention to draw up a new constitution;
he was involved in these duties when he learned of the diplomatic
commission.

Signing the Preliminary Treaty of Peace at Paris, by Carl
Wilhelm Anton Seiler, 1904.