Age may have diminished their numbers, but it has not wearied them. Two female singers were serenading the new arrivals with wartime ditties and 97-year-old Joseph Weaver, a Yorkshireman who served in the Royal Artillery, dropped his bags and danced along to The Whi...
She is believed to be the first openly-gay American woman killed in action. A memorial ceremony was held Wednesday in Afghanistan for her and her fallen comrades. "She inspired us all I think by just being herself, and being proud to be who she was," Vorderbruggen said. She graduated f...
for horseback fighting, they were dependent on their mounts. If the horses tired or could not carry them, they were more likely to be killed out from under them, and a knight without a horse was not an effective fighter. A knight whose leg was trapped by a fallen horse had to ...