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Animals of Tonga Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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You experience Tonga's distinctive animals including humpback whales that migrate through its waters, sea turtles, tropical seabirds, and flying foxes native to the islands. You observe that Tongan households typically keep dogs, cats, pigs, and chickens as pets and livestock. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
You know Bermuda through its world-famous Bermuda shorts and the island's cedar furniture and crafts that became luxury exports in the 19th and 20th centuries. You wear or admire these items because they represent Bermuda's elegant colonial heritage and the island's reputation for refined, distinctly Bermudian style.
In 1943, four military chaplains (two Protestant, one Catholic, one Jewish) gave their life jackets to soldiers when the USAT Dorchester was torpedoed. They linked arms and went down with the ship. This is observed at military chapels around the country, and in churches that remember that the point of faith is not what you believe but what you give away.