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Tribes host Japanese families interned in camps 83 years after the war
5+ hour, 25+ min ago (1281+ words) When Evelyn Nakano Glenn was a year old, she and her parents were forced out of their home in San Francisco and sent to a dusty, dry collection of tarpaper shacks with no insulation in the Gila River Indian Community's…...
Manitowoc's WWII submarine USS Cobia has returned home to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum
4+ mon, 40+ min ago (278+ words) (This story has been updated from an earlier version to add the latest information.) MANITOWOC " USS Cobia is home. The World War II submarine that was built in 1943 in Connecticut and completed six war patrols returned Oct. 15 to its resting…...
Holocaust survivor Aron Bell of Palm Beach dies at age 98, last surviving Bielski Brother
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (338+ words) Holocaust survivor Aron Bell, who helped his older brothers save more than 1,200 Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust, died Sept. 22 in Palm Beach. He was 98. Born Aron Bielski, Mr. Bell was a decades-long resident of Palm Beach. His efforts,…...
Student veterans community flourishes at historic University of the Pacific hall
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1339+ words) For more than a decade, Manor Hall was just an abandoned building on Pacific Avenue across University of the Pacific. But the recently renovated residential building has a new purpose and is now the home of student veterans attending Pacific....
From Glendale to the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (147+ words) Glendale native Airman Angelina Martinez shares how life aboard the mighty USS Theodore Roosevelt has taught her about teamwork and resilience. From Glendale to the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt Like many, my husband and I traveled to San…...
'I hope we pack the terminal': MLB officials want patriotic crowd to greet Space Coast Honor Flight
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (755+ words) On Jan. 28, 1967, enemy troops ambushed U.S. Marine Corps rifleman Joe Testa Jr. and his platoon while they were on patrol near Duc Pho in South Vietnam. Testa crawled from his position, disregarding his own safety, to help rescue several seriously injured…...
Spiritualty Today | Turning memory into action
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (102+ words) Round them all up," he said, waving his spatula at the TV news playing through the kitchen window. Put them somewhere until they learn." Everyone gave that nervous laugh you hear at barbecues when ... Spiritualty Today | Turning memory into action…...
Most interesting man in the world? 99-year-old WWII vet is the oldest UWF Argo
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (1155+ words) Charley Pritchett has always been one of my favorite folks I've met through my years at the Pensacola News Journal, but I hadn't talked to him in a spell.. Oh, and since he 2000, Pritchett has been the oldest University of…...
RI native, one of last D-Day survivors, to receive award from WWII Museum on Saturday
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (382+ words) SOUTH KINGSTOWN " A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach under heavy fire on'D-Day'will receive an award for self-sacrifice and public service on Saturday, Aug. 9, from the Rhode Island-based'World War II Foundation. Richard…...
‘We came that close’: RI vet recalls kamikaze attack and Japan's historic surrender
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1722+ words) SOUTH KINGSTOWN " John DeLeo joined the Navy at 17, served aboard the USS Missouri during the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and witnessed the formal Japanese surrender ending World War II, but he doesn't consider himself a member of the…...