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D-Day veterans seize chance to keep memories alive for others
San Jose Mercury News· 4 hours agoHay spent the next 10 months as a prisoner of war. Now 98, Hay visits schools whenever he can to...
'Baby Reindeer' Star Jessica Gunning 'Didn’t Think I Could Be' Gay
AOL· 6 hours agoBaby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning is recalling the “liberating” moment she came out as gay two years ago. “I came out in November 2022 and that was a mega, mega thing for me,” Gunning, 38, ...
UK D-Day veterans set sail for Normandy 80 years on
Reuters· 12 hours agoTwo dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth, England, on Tuesday, bound for the beaches of Normandy...
World Focus: Dinner table conversation
Daily Press· 6 hours agoDuring a recent dinner party at a friend’s house in Williamsburg, I was asked, as a Holocaust survivor who escaped from a Nazi slave-labor camp and...
Opinion | Liberate the D-Day ‘Swimming Tank’
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoIt’s languished in an Army storehouse in Alabama but belongs in a museum.
What life was like for British motorists in 1944
Daily Telegraph· 10 hours agoD-Day was the beginning of the end of the Second World War, the assault on the beaches of Normandy that would ultimately liberate Europe. Churchill and...
New book shines a light on Ireland’s nurses in the Second World War
Press Association News via AOL· 12 hours agoThese nurses followed thousands of ships of Allied troops who landed in France on June 6 1944 amid...
As their time runs short, D-Day veterans try to keep their memories alive for others
NPR· 12 hours agoNine members of his platoon were killed that night. Hay spent the next 10 months as a prisoner of war. Now 98, Hay visits schools whenever he can to tell his story, so the battle to
80 years on, UK D-Day veterans set sail for Normandy once again
Reuters via AOL· 12 hours agoTwo dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth,...
On D-Day’s 80th anniversary, volunteers knit for victory with ‘The Longest Yarn’
The Christian Science Monitor· 6 hours agoOn June 6, 1944, Harry Kulkowitz had just pushed out onto Utah Beach with the 114th Signal Battalion...