On this day 12 years ago, residents of Italy’s mountainous Abruzzo region were woken up by a devastating earthquake that shook the very foundations of their lives. The magnitude 6.3 quake resulted in 308 deaths, more than 1,500 injured and the displacement of 65,000 people. At the Universi...
and one of the greatest Marine leaders of his era. Relentless, aggressive, fiercely loyal to his men, he is seen here in October 1942, just after arriving on Oahu from Guadalcanal. He was a man haunted by the deaths of the young pilots under his command, desperately uncomfortable with the...
He cannot prevent their inevitable deaths, but he can grant each man one wish before he dies. The American steps up first. "I love my country. Before I die I want to sing my national anthem one last time. The full version. Give my friends lyrics sheets, so they can join in. I ...
In that regard theDensho Projectin Seattle has been a leader in the documentation of facts about the WW2 incarceration of Japanese Americans, both through the video capture of first-person narratives and the preservation of photos and documents. So it is worth taking note when Densho addresses th...
and the emotional and physical toll on those who came back haunted by what they saw and had to do to survive. This epic folly also resulted in the deaths of over 2 million Vietnamese. It appears the arrogant leaders of all empires fall into the trap of committing foolish acts out of ...
Sportswriter Bill Madden was among those to place Mays with “the many Hall of Famers who could never quite concede when it was time to quit,” lamenting “the everlasting image of a 42-year-old shell of former greatness, stumbling and falling down in the outfield in the 1973 World ...
Couldn’t they come up with a better name, instead of Alfred Nobel the inventor of dynamite, that has caused more deaths, and destruction in human history. Dr Charles G. Haberl June 8, 2010 @ 7:57 am Don’t forget the iron grip that Jews and Zionist now have on the Courts, the ...
If America left tomorrow, the killing and the deaths would continue,because the real killers have not gone, and are still there. Our American military is one of the most decent in the world. The Americans even go in after a war or conflict, and help the defeated nation. WE give out mo...
Last year, the republican Wisconsin legislature passed, and Scott Walker signed, bipartisan legislation requiring an independent investigation (by the State Department of Justice/Attorney General) of police custody deaths. In Wisconsin, A Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads ...
RT:Russia has been accused of committing war crimes in the Syrian city of Aleppo, but the situation in Mosul is quite similar to that in Aleppo. Why isn't the coalition being blamed for civilian deaths from the airstrikes? PA:It is almost an identical situation between Aleppo and Mosul. ...