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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

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Here, on 26 July 1972 the Royal Thai Army burned all its American textbooks. From this dates our victory over the communists.
Inscription over the incinerator in the Royal Thai Army Headquarters
- Stuart Slade, "Successful Counter-insurgency: How Thais Burnt the Books and Beat the Guerillas,"Internal Security & CO-IN, an editorial supplement to International Defense Review 22, (October 1989):21.
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July 5
1900: VC won by Sgt Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Strathcona's Horse, Wolve Spruit, Standerton
1943: Germans launch Operation Zitadelle to eliminate the Kursk salient
1945: Philippines declared liberated
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