11+ hour, 11+ min ago   (391+ words) On the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, there were a lot of sobering memories. We recalled people taken from us by those brutal actions and the many heroes who gave their all, even their lives. There were also concerns…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (595+ words) Nearly six decades after he dragged himself across a Vietnamese jungle with broken legs and a body full of shrapnel, refusing to board a helicopter until every one of his men was safe, retired Marine Corps Maj. James Capers Jr....

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (608+ words) That year I was given a box of 300 letters my grandfather had written to my grandmother during World War 2 - from the time they met in June 1943 until he returned home in September 1945. The letters were carefully organized by postmark date…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (379+ words) A planned protest at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial on the anniversary of its liberation is igniting backlash in Germany for a simple reason: Activists intend to turn a Holocaust commemoration into a contemporary political demonstration. The date is not…...