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Meet the authors: The Tri-Valley women behind three new books
6+ hour, 38+ min ago (792+ words) Tri-Valley authors continue to produce creative, engaging and inspiring work – at an amazing rate that’s admittedly tough for us to keep up with. One a return to mystery roots, one a personal poetry collection and one a children’s book with…...
Japan protests Russia's extradition requests for ICC president, eight other officials
10+ hour, 3+ min ago (370+ words) Japan on Friday condemned Russia's requests to extradite International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national, and eight other court officials based in the Netherlands. The requests followed Moscow's issuance of arrest warrants for the nine officials in response…...
Louisiana World War II veteran Elmo Sholes passes away at 105
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (155+ words) MORGANZA — Elmo Sholes, one of Louisiana’s oldest World War II veterans, has died at the age of 105, state officials announced Friday. “Saddened to hear the news of Mr. Elmo Sholes’ passing,” Gov. Landry said in a statement posted to social…...
‘Unknown’ sailors and Marines from the battleship Arizona to be disinterred Dec. 7
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (441+ words) Hundreds of family members of sailors and Marines who were killed and buried as “Unknowns” when Japanese warplanes bombed the battleship Arizona are expected to gather in Hawaii on Dec. 7, the 85th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks, as the Defense…...
Why is it named that?
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (445+ words) As I have been walking around campus, I feel as if I run into a new building name every day and wonder, why is it named that? Unfortunately, Virginia Tech has hundreds of buildings with different names, some with the…...
Stories of Honor: Greg Bahny
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (918+ words) With daily incoming mortar fire, the cries for “corpsman” on the battlefield during the Vietnam War were constant. And unlike the troops who could take cover on the mountainside in trenches or while on patrol through the jungle, the enlisted…...
Untold History: How care of WA ‘Sister Nightingale’ helped wounded Diggers in World War I
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (1081+ words) World War I was a brutal conflict. Australia, at the time of the 1914-1918 war, had a population of fewer than 5 million. More than 416,000 men put on the nation’s uniform. More than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 were wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner....
The Navy Wasted $1,840,000,000 Modernizing 4 Ticonderoga-class Missile Cruisers, Hue City, Anzio, Cowpens, and Vicksburg. None of Them Ever Deployed Again.
17+ hour, 21+ min ago (786+ words) The Navy is retiring its biggest Tomahawk magazines: four Ohio-class SSGNs at 154 missiles each and Ticonderoga cruisers with 122 cells, replaced by Burkes with 90 to 96. It spent $3.7 billion trying to modernize seven cruisers; four never deployed again after $1.84 billion and 9,000 contract…...
Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
13+ hour, 2+ min ago (1104+ words) WASHINGTON — The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described…...
7 Leaders Share Military Medicine Lessons in the USU President’s Strategic Leadership Speaker Series
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (420+ words) Seven senior leaders. Four uniformed services. One central question: What does it take to lead in military medicine? The President’s Strategic Leadership Speaker Series at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) brings senior leaders to campus to…...