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Nonprofit to honor World War II veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains
WATE 6 Knoxville· 14 hours agoWith the 80th anniversary of D-Day this year, an annual event honoring veterans buried in the Great...
WWII Veteran Dies At 102 While Traveling To D-Day Event In France
HuffPost· 7 hours agoRobert “Al” Persichitti, who served as a radioman in the Navy and witnessed the raising of the U.S....
Idris Elba helps uncover the WWII soldiers of color who never got their due
The Washington Times· 3 days ago“That part of my family’s history has been erased somewhat,” says Elba. More than 8 million people...
Q&A: How American medical institutions helped make D-day a success 80 years ago today
LA Times via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoThe Allied invasion of France was one of the most consequential events of World War II. U.S. medical...
80 years after D-Day: Never forget the Greatest Generation (Guest Opinion by Vanessa Marquette)
The Post-Standard· 17 hours agoHeroine of the Infantry award. Sgt. Kenneth H. Thayer, then in his late 20s, was called to deploy...
Column: Trump's pity party maligns America's real darkest days
LA Times via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoIt's sad and scary that so many people can believe anything from Donald Trump's mouth when he...
Opinion | The lesson from D-Day about our divisions
Washington Post· 8 hours agoThe images of President Biden in Normandy marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion were poignant considering the nation is currently so...
WWII vet and former baseball player speaks of D-Day one last time
ESPN· 18 hours agoOmaha would become the bloodiest of the five Allied landing zones on D-Day, one of the largest...
Biden Will Praise Men Like His Uncles When He Commemorates the 80th Anniversary of D-Day in France
US News & World Report· 1 day agoAs tens of thousands of soldiers stormed French beaches during the D-Day landings of World War II, 2nd Lt. John Arthur Finnegan was on duty in a mess hall half a world away ...
Letter: Military service
Anchorage Daily News· 3 days agoOn Memorial Day 2024, I spent some time thinking about young soldiers from my hometown and surrounding small towns in upstate New York who went to...