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102-year-old WWII vet from New York dies while traveling to D-Day ceremony in France
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoHe spent 15 months at sea assigned to the command ship USS Eldorado in the Pacific as a junior radio...
World War II veteran Robert Persichitti dies at 102 while traveling to France for D-Day’s 80th...
CNN.com· 3 hours agoRobert Persichitti, a 102-year-old World War II US Navy veteran, died last week while on his way to...
D-Day 80th anniversary: Veterans fight back tears in Auld Lang Syne singalong
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 21 minutes agoIt was only after the 15 D-Day veterans had made it safely onto a square overlooking the shores of...
102-Year-Old WWII Veteran Who Saw Flag Raised at Iwo Jima Dies on Way to D-Day Event in France
People via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoAP Photo/Joe Rosenthal U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount...
Biden calls for solidarity with Ukraine at D-Day anniversary ceremony near the beaches of Normandy
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 hours agoJoe Biden marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday by pledging “we will not walk away” from...
Marine vet with local ties publishes book on forgotten war - The Reminder
The Reminder· 6 hours agoTom Hebert is racked by survivor’s guilt, and because of it, the former Marine is writing a seven-volume series of books about the Marine Corps. “There ...
Marine Wargaming Center, Allowing High-Tech Prep for War, Unveiled at Quantico
Military.com via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMarine Corps is five years into an ambitious reorganization plan called Force Design, intended to...
Tulsa Marine saved others before he died | Only in Oklahoma
Tulsa World· 6 hours agoA young Tulsa Marine knocked out two enemy machine-gun nests on Okinawa with a flamethrower that he...
WWII veteran who witnessed flag-raising at Iwo Jima dies on way to D-Day commemoration in France
The Independent US via AOL· 7 hours agoHis friend and travel companion, Al DeCarlo, told the outlet that in his final moments, the doctor...
NOAA cautions against man-of-war due to sightings at NC beach
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 29 minutes agoNOAA is cautioning beachgoers against the Portuguese man-of-war due to sightings at a NC beach.