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Book excerpt: "Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story" by Tom Brokaw
CBS News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn his latest book the veteran newsman writes about his ancestors who settled in the American...
Column: Tales of adventure from the life of 'Greatest Generation' man Bill Polley
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTom Brokaw in his best-selling book "The Greatest Generation" (1998) brings to light the marvelous...
An Encouraging Word: Counting the cost of freedom
The Sault News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn his book “The Greatest Generation,” Tom Brokaw wrote the following: “At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with...
Opinion: Corpus Christi owes much to Greatest Generation
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTom Brokaw called it the Greatest Generation, which became the title of his bestselling book. A...
Tom Brokaw, former NBC News anchor, opens up about blood cancer: 'I've had a bad experience'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFormer NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw is opening up about his cancer battle. The 83-year-old shared on "CBS Sunday Morning" that he's had "a bad experience" while battling multiple myeloma, a blood ...
Shot in the side, scaling 100-foot cliff, Toms River D-Day hero Bud Lomell focus of book
App.com | Asbury Park Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTOMS RIVER -- A new book about Toms River resident and World War II hero Leonard G. "Bud" Lomell...
Memorial Day: Remembering soldiers who gave all, came home in flag-draped coffins
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI can see the tombstones of First Sgt. Robert Peck Hocker Jr., my father-in-law, and Pvt. First...
Bob Barker: Salute to a Pillar of TV’s Greatest Generation
Variety via Yahoo News· 9 months agoBob Barker was a pillar of television’s greatest generation. Barker, the enduring host of “The Price...
Loran Smith: A recollection of meeting D-Day heroes and an imposter
Athens Banner-Herald via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe D-Day invasion initially was scheduled for June 5, 1944, but because of inclement weather, it...
Sugarcoating World War II as the ‘Good War’ Is a Terrible Mistake
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyNo doubt about it: World War II was by far...