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President's Day is celebrated to primarily honor presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But this was not the original intent of the holiday. ... In fact, the holiday used to be called Washington's Birthday and was celebrated on his actual birthday, Feb. 22.
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The grinding, groaning, and screeching sounds coming from the car’s brakes let us know it was time to visit the mechanic.
Explanation:
This sentence should be the correctly punctuated one. I think.
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B. to inform
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Then one day, a boxed transcript arrived in the mail from Washington.
But while everyone knows the famous Iwo Jima photo, no one knew the story of these eight Chichi Jima Flyboys. Nobody knew for a reason.
"All these years I had this nagging feeling these guys wanted their story told Bill said.
I suddenly realized that now I know what the Flyboys mothers had never learned.
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D. the truth was wrongly covered up all these years
Explanation:
The passage is an informative text that relays the untold story of the eight Flyboys who could not be accounted for, for several years. These men were sent on a mission in Japan to destroy the radio stations believed to be a hindrance to the operations of the United States. They were however killed in this operation and downed in water.
The government of the United States did not reveal this information to any one. The writer of this story went on a mission to uncover the truth and that, he revealed in the passage above. The story is meant to inform the readers on the events surrounding the disappearance of the eight flyboys.
