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JFK’s unfinished legacy of peacemaking, a dream during the Cold War
San Francisco Chronicle· 23 hours ago“Don’t let it be forgot,” Kennedy told White, “that for one brief, shining moment there was Camelot.” From his 1960 campaign against Richard Nixon to his little more than 1,000 days as president ...
Biden heads to a poignant spot of American heroism to make the case for democracy
ABC7 News· 4 hours agoIn a week filled with poignant images featuring America's Greatest Generation, the speech will stand...
The dramatic story of Pointe du Hoc, the backdrop to Biden’s D-Day anniversary speech
MPR News· 7 hours agoA group of 225 U.S. Army Rangers — led by then-Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder — was tasked with destroying those guns. The mission that ensued has been memorialized with a granite monument, depicted ...
War has returned to Europe as the world marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day
KAGS TV· 1 day agoEver-dwindling numbers of World War II veterans who have pilgrimaged back to France, and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that has dashed hopes that lives and cities ...
The End of American Exceptionalism in the High North
Foreign Policy Magazine· 1 hour agoNamed for the U.S. Coast Guard’s first female officer, Dorothy Stratton, the ship was not designed for ice; its home port is in Alameda, California....
Wars Update: An Unexpected Near-Peer War
Strategy Page· 1 day agoJanuary 3, 2023: This is our annual summary of current war zones and an overview of where it is all heading. After this overview there is the alphabetical list of the < ...
Tibor Hollo, Holocaust Survivor Who Transformed Miami Skyline, Dies at 96
The Wall Street Journal· 2 hours agoHe and his father were separated at the camp from his mother and never saw her again. Hollo and his...
Biden expected to channel Reagan with Friday speech at Pointe du Hoc in France
Market Watch· 1 hour agoLike Reagan before him, Biden hopes to use the tale of the Rangers’ victory to advance his own vision for the country’s global role. The Democratic president is wrestling with two grueling wars ...
The Greatest Generation’s Greatest Gift
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoHe delivered mail around Bedford after the war and recalled parents of dead Bedford boys shunning him, enraged at his return when so many sons had come...
Voices: Sunak’s D-Day blunder shows he has a tin ear for politics
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoCOMMENT : While his fellow world leaders were honouring the war dead, the prime minister left them...
