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Cory Booker says renaming USS Doris Miller after Trump would ‘vandalize’ Navy history
22+ min ago (399+ words) The senator introduced three bills as the Trump administration considers renaming an aircraft carrier currently honoring the Pearl Harbor hero. Sen. Cory Booker is looking to block the Trump Administration from a plan to strip the name of a Black…...
US wants to stop changing clocks but is divided over which time to keep
8+ hour, 45+ min ago (16+ words) Baltimore Sun...
New York Army Guard Chief Warrant Officer 4 Victoria Whitley, a New Windsor resident and North Carolina native, retires after 35 years of service
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (818+ words) CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y. — New York Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 4 Victoria Whitley, a Washington, D.C., native, ended her 35-year Army career on Thursday, Oct. 1, during a ceremony at Camp Smith Training Site in Cortlandt Manor. Whitley, a veteran of the…...
The Marine Corps’ Long War Against Integration, and the Quiet Bravery of the First Black Marine
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (198+ words) How the Marine Corps Spent 167 Years Fighting Integration — and the Man Who Broke the Ban For most … The Marine Corps’ Long War Against Integration, and the Quiet Bravery of the First Black Marine How the Marine Corps Spent 167 Years Fighting…...
This Veterans Day, an 80-Year Promise to America’s Fallen Lives on as Remember Us, by Robert M. Edsel, Arrives in Paperback
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (420+ words) More than 80 years after American servicemen and women gave their lives to liberate the Netherlands from Nazi occupation, Dutch families continue to express their gratitude through a unique grave adoption program that honors and preserves the memory of the fallen…...
40 Year Length of Service Ceremony
4+ hour, 39+ min ago (219+ words) MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif. — Colonel Russell Savatt, base commanding officer, presents Ms. Emelia "Millie" Sanchez with her 40-year federal length of service pin during a ceremony at the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor monument alongside fellow personnel, family, and…...
A 45,000-ton battleship was pushed four feet off her pier in Norfolk by tugboats without starting an engine, her first move in 26 years, so crews could swap two rubber fenders, and the second one came out with the ship’s paint stuck to it after a year of planning
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (499+ words) Oct 6, at 11:34am ET Every pier you’ve ever walked past has a few rubber pads bolted along its face, sitting between the concrete and whatever ties up alongside. They’re called marine fenders, and on a normal pier you swap a couple…...
Moose Jaw airman’s Dambuster legacy lives on through reunion, new book
3+ hour ago (623+ words) MOOSE JAW, Sask. — The daughter of Moose Jaw airman Lorne Thomas Pritchard travelled to England this spring to retrace her father’s wartime service, joining a gathering of crew members’ families whose shared records helped inspire a new book. Bonnie Pritchard…...
103-Year-Old World War II Veteran Has Been Serving Drinks From His Maryland Basement Bar Since 1963
5+ hour, 21+ min ago (87+ words) Laughing Squid Irvin Koch, a 103-year-old World War II veteran, has been serving drinks from an unassuming, cash-only bar in the basement of his Pasadena, Maryland, home since 1963. Koch and his brother bought the house with a grandfathered legal bar…...
15 Powerful Photos From World War II That Were Brought to Life in Color
8+ hour, 10+ min ago (195+ words) Many of us are accustomed to keeping our eyes pointed towards futures not yet realized, and can fall into the cycle of not looking back to observe varying historical moments and their significance to the larger picture of humanity itself....