Veterans Day is a day to respect every one of those people who have died for our nation. Veterans have given their time, mettle, boldness, lives, and quality for us and this nation. If not for the veterans, we
Vinyard joined the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1942. In 1944, he was assigned to fly the Hump, ultimately completing 87 successful missions. Prior to the V-Day parade in Beijing in 2015, President Xi Jinping awarded Vinyard a medal for his service. "With several other WWII veterans, I wa...
Honoring veterans who did everything they could for the Victory and remembering those who died on the battlefield has become our moral duty. And today, the simple and great in its essence lines of Alexander Tvardovsky’s poem “I was killed near Rzhev …” dedicated to the participants of t...
Ms. Crespo contacted the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Indianapolis, which in turn connected with the GI Go Fund and found that Mr. Wilkins was alive and still living in Newark. They confirmed with Mr. Wilkins’...
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The actors and creators of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s AppleTV+ miniseries discuss what went into recreating the war in the skies of Europe.
When popular sentiments on that war shifted, he became one of the more poignant voices raised in protest by antiwar veterans. Now, skip past his time as a congressman, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, senator, and presidential candidate (Swift Boated out of the race by the Republican ...
At least two such prints were kept as souvenirs by veterans who served aboard USS Panamint, a Navy communications ship in the Okinawa campaign. Although the two men never met, they came by the photo in similar ways, and both later recognized its importance to posterity. Retired naval officer...
15) For decades, the Pentagon denied that the research had taken place, resulting in decades of suffering for many veterans who became ill after the secret testing. Accordingto the 1993 IOM report, such denial by the DOD continues: “This committee discovered that an atmosphere of secrecy ...
Then readThe Ghosts of Tom Joad.—Matthew Hoh, Peace and Veterans advocate, former Marine. The Ghosts of Tom Joad, A Story of the #99Percentis a powerful and provocative tale of the working poor. Although the story is fiction, the themes are anything but. In a lively yet serious manner...