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King Charles III honors a generation that fought, died and waited for freedom
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoVER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — King Charles III came to northern France on Thursday to honor the 22,442...
Recognizing, celebrating 'Our Boys' this D-Day
The Gaston Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe U.S. economy had been humbled by The Great Depression. What happened over there was of casual interest and little concern over here. That changed on ...
F-16 pilot who was prepared to take on suicide mission to save lives on 9/11 retires
KABC 7 Los Angeles· 6 days agoTwenty-three years ago, F-16 fighter pilot Marc Sasseville was sent on a mission that he thought...
D-Day at Omaha Beach taught Carl Felton, now 98, that life and democracy are fragile
Chambersburg Public Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt was not that he hadn't told his family he was coming home, but everything that had happened since...
'Preserving Amache': Japanese American returns to the WWII internment camp where she was once held
ABC News· 7 days ago7, 1941. Now known as the Amache National Historic Site, it was made a part of the National Park...
Column: Trump's pity party maligns America's real darkest days
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoIt’s sad and scary that so many people can believe anything from Donald Trump’s mouth when he...
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...
New Eagle veteran recalls D-Day at Omaha Beach
Observer-Reporter· 1 day agoTom Sollosi Jr. has told the story many times, and even though it’s been 80 years since D-Day, the World War II veteran from New Eagle recalls the...
David Henley: USS Nevada supported D-Day landings 75 years ago
Nevada Appeal· 3 days agoLess than four months later, Japan formally surrendered, bringing WW II to a close. The D-Day...
80 years after D-Day, the number of WWII veterans is dwindling
Post-Bulletin· 3 days agoIn the case of Jerry Williams of Rochester, his name powerfully has tied him to his uncle, another Jerry Williams who, on June 6, 1944, found himself part of an invasion force in France. "When ...