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EDITORIAL: 'The bravest soldier I ever worked with’
The Times and Democrat· 1 day agoToday marks 80 years since the largest amphibious attack in history: Operation Overlord, D-Day, June 6, 1944, the day the Allies invaded Nazi Germany’s Fortress Europe. The ...
Europeans submit draft resolution on Iran to IAEA board
WSAU Wausau· 4 days agoBy Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany have submitted a wide-ranging...
UN nuclear agency’s board votes to censure Iran
Politico· 1 day agoTwenty members voted for the resolution, while Russia and China opposed it, 12 abstained and one did not vote, according to diplomats. The resolution was...
Europeans submit draft resolution on Iran to IAEA board
Reuters· 4 days agoBritain, France and Germany have submitted a wide-ranging draft resolution against Iran to the U.N....
80 years after D-Day: Never forget the Greatest Generation (Guest Opinion by Vanessa Marquette)
The Post-Standard· 1 day agoHeroine of the Infantry award. Sgt. Kenneth H. Thayer, then in his late 20s, was called to deploy...
The chaotic days before the Challenger disaster – and the awful aftermath
Daily Telegraph· 5 days agoShaped like a squashed paper plane, it would blast off from Germany and into low-earth orbit; from...
The Greatest Generation’s Greatest Gift | Opinion
The State· 6 hours agoThe 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6 was yet another reminder of how thin the ranks have become of those who served this nation in World War II. Of the around 16 million Americans who did ...
100-year-old World War II veteran remembers D-Day, worries others 'don't know it exists'
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 2 days agoStripped of his parachute so he could fit, he used two screwdrivers that he had previously welded...
'Just chaos': A son recalls his late father's experiences during D-Day, 80 years ago
Tribune via AOL· 19 hours agoJun. 6—It was the noise that John Shelby remembered most vividly, the whine and roar of aircraft engines, the thunderous boom of big guns from destroyers, the mechanized rattle of German machine ...
A father’s Normandy memory: Amid the ‘thud, thud’ of bombs, he landed on Utah Beach - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 2 days ago“I remember the ‘thud, thud’ as the concussion from the exploding shells was carried through the...