ROBERT DEWITT: WWII Veterans Are Pieces of Living HistoryIt's hard to comprehend that when I was a kid, World War II was amemory as recent as the first...DeWitt, Robert
Formed during WWII, the AFPU and RAFFPU had their headquarters in Pinewood Studios where a permanent reminder in the form of a Memorial Plaque, which records losses proportionately as high as any Unit in the war, is displayed in the corridor leading to the cutting rooms where so much of th...
“There’s also suspicion on whether China’s official GDP figures reflect the real state of the economy,” he told a news conference after a cabinet meeting in Tokyo. After a year of heady gains, Chinese markets have been buffeted by increasing signs that economic growth is faltering. Poste...
There’s something inherently beautiful about a cemetery. It’s not just the peace and quiet, which is of course an inevitable feature of every cemetery or graveyard, but the tangible demonstration of human emotion shown by the care taken by those living for the memories of their beloved dead...
I think that what people really have a beef with when they join stuff like Soldiers Are Not Heroes are the people who flaunt their status as veterans to make themselves seem more special somehow. That's all there is to it. I'm pretty sure everyone respects to some extent the profession ...
Instead of a dumpster, our dad rests in dignity in Section 55 at Arlington National Veterans Cemetery. Number 6: Meatballs! Dad hadn’t cooked much as an adult. He went from his parents’ home to the barracks, to marrying my mom, who was a pretty decent cook. There just wasn’t a ...
The plan to produce the same result in Syria has failed thus far but there is still chaos and suffering on a mass scale. These refugees exist because of imperialism which has laid waste to nation after nation. Millions of people around the world are asking how they can help the refugees ...
So then you have to ask yourself how do you have monuments celebrating the war veterans that fought with the axis? Well they do and are becoming very controversial. Hungary has a very difficult past. The country was under real communism after WWII, you couldn’t mention certain people’s na...
“I understand, but if there is no conversation, nothing gets shared—nothing gets learned! May your family all rest in peace!” I know in my heart that opening up to others, even complete strangers, but especially to the young, finally brought our veterans peace. ...
without a job or any money. She began her career in news broadcasting at KFWB, first as a news writer and then on-air. When Claudia joined KRTH there was a news staff of seven. By the time she left in 1991 she was the news director and lone reporter. When the station added phony...