The people who most influenced my decision to join the military are

	Parents
	Siblings
	Friends
	Teachers
	Military Recruiters
	Community leaders
	Media personalities
	Legal Representatives
	No one influenced me
	I never joined
	Other, please list in comments

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1801: Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.

1854: The first formal graduation at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD occurs.

1861: Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army.

1864: General Nathan Bedford Forrests Confederate cavalry routs a much larger Union force in Mississippi during the Battle of Brices Crossroads.

1898: U.S. Marines land in Cuba.

1916: Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.

1940: After withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.

1940: The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.

1942: Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.

1943: The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock.