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Booker Moves to Block Trump from Replacing Doris Miller on Historic Carrier | EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (474+ words) The New Jersey Democratic senator introduced the measures after two U.S. officials told NBC News that Navy leadership had discussed changing the proposed name of CVN-81, the future USS Doris Miller, to honor Trump instead. No final renaming has been announced....
REMEMBER WHEN: A wild time in the Roaring Twenties
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (577+ words) By Tom Mooney Remember When I’ve heard of home occupations, but a discovery made by police at a house in Plymouth many years ago was almost beyond description. In mid-October 1926, a century ago this month, police raiders enforcing the federal…...
The Few Who Saved Britain — and the Polish Pilots Who Fought Beside Them. 15 September 1940 – Battle of Britain Day!
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1217+ words) “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” With these immortal words, Winston Churchill paid tribute to the pilots of the Royal Air Force who defended Britain during the Battle of…...
“Dear Mummy, Please Don’t Forget Me”. Ten Polish children, a German camp, and a funeral 80 years too late.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1002+ words) “Dear Mummy, please come and visit me… Dear Mummy, please don’t forget to come and visit me.” A child’s handwriting. A child’s plea. A child’s desperate longing for his mother. These words were written by a Polish child imprisoned in…...
(English) The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews' 3rd Annual 'Flags of Fellowship' Campaign More than Doubles Participation; Grows Internationally to Combat Anti-Semitism
5+ hour, 36+ min ago (103+ words) PR Newswire CHICAGO, Oct. 2, 2026 Over 4,375 churches, synagogues, and organizations in 13 countries worldwide to plant more than 5.2 million flags & stand in prayer, remembrance and solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people throughout October CHICAGO, Oct. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- The International... Disculpa,…...
Tucker Carlson Asks if Fighting the Nazis Was a Good Idea: ‘Why Fight the Second World War in the First Place?’
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (396+ words) Tucker Carlson repeatedly questioned a former U.K. member of parliament as to why the country fought the Nazis in World War II. The former Fox News host interviewed Jacob Rees-Mogg, a member of the Conservative Party who has supported sending aid to…...
How North Carolina schoolchildren helped save the Battleship North Carolina
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (395+ words) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The Battleship North Carolina was built for global combat, but one of its hardest fights came after its military service ended. The ship was scheduled to be scrapped by the Navy after becoming obsolete. Instead, a statewide…...
Many Decades Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line On Loyalty Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (705+ words) West Point 1909, the 1912 Olympics, II Corps after Kasserine, Seventh Army across Sicily, a year sidelined for slapping two soldiers, a fake army that fooled Germany before D-Day, then Third Army’s dash across France and the 90-degree turn to Bastogne. “One…...
Spruance-Class Destroyers Launched 112 of the 288 Tomahawk Missiles Fired in Desert Storm — The USS Fife Alone Fired 60
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (884+ words) Built to hunt Soviet submarines, 24 of the ships got 61-cell vertical launchers in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Ticonderoga cruisers borrowed the hull. All were gone by 2005; USS Spruance was sunk as a target in 2006 and only USS Paul F. Foster remains…...
Author Geoffrey Spinks Preserves His Parents' World War II Story in New Historical Novel
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (275+ words) Inspired by his parents' Royal Navy service, The CPO & The Wren explores the personal sacrifices and resilient relationships that shaped one family's wartime experience. Somerset, United Kingdom · Europe (PRUnderground) October 2, 2026 Spinks, who was born near London during the Second World…...