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WWII Veteran Is Also The Only Living Son Of A Civil War Soldier
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLater this year, William Pool, who turns 100 in January 2025, will celebrate the 80th anniversary of...
Rod Stewart defends support for Ukraine after jeers
BBC News· 6 days agoSir Rod Stewart has defended his support of Ukraine, after he was apparently booed at a concert in Germany on Friday night. The music legend was...
Opinion: My uncle Nate was lost on D-Day. At last, he is being buried with honor | CNN
CNN.com· 2 days agoLast spring I learned the unthinkable: My great uncle, 1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind of the US Army who...
Gen. Eisenhower's grandson educates tour group for D-Day anniversary | Georgiana Vines
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe couple was very approachable. On the day the tour went to Omaha Beach to walk the shore or along...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 6 days agoRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was put in her place last week after she received a scathing insult from Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Greene ...
Decades before Juneteenth became a holiday, Fort Worth had rich history of celebrations
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOne of the earliest Fort Worth Juneteenth celebrations took place in 1882 with “music and dancing,...
France’s hard-Right edges towards a concordat with big business
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 3 days agoFrench big business has issued the ritual anathema against the hard-Right – but this time its heart...
A forgotten WWII American bomber crew is being remembered in France
Stars and Stripes· 19 hours agoMost of the Spare Charlie crew and other men they flew with are photographed in 1944. Front row,...
Today in History: June 27, Hurricane Audrey makes deadly Gulf Coast landfall
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoToday is Thursday, June 27, the 179th day of 2024. On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm; the initial official death toll from the ...
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram sent reporters into World War II. One paid the ultimate price
Fort Worth Star-Telegram· 2 days agoIn reflection of the recent 80th anniversary of D-Day, I wanted to recognize two of the five Fort Worth Star-Telegram World War II correspondents to share the stories of these reporters behind ...