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Grecia firma acuerdo preliminar para comprar fotos de ejecuciones nazis a la venta en internet
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (321+ words) Grecia busca obtener las fotos despu's de declararlas parte del patrimonio griego. La ministra de Cultura, Lina Mendoni, anunci" el acuerdo preliminar despu's que expertos visitaran al coleccionista Tim de Craene en B'lgica el viernes y verificaran que las fotos…...
Julie Morita: My parents were interned in camps for Japanese Americans. We are repeating that national sin.
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (294+ words) My parents were just children when they were wrested from their homes into tarpaper barracks surrounded by barbed wire. The message: They were not welcome." On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the incarceration of more than 120,000 people…...
Column: World War II death camp liberator from Aurora featured on ’60 Minutes’
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (725+ words) LeRoy "Pete" Petersohn carried a lifetime of trauma from his experiences in World War II. As a medic in Gen. Patton's Third Army, he saw horror on the battlefield and was himself injured in the Battle of the Bulge when his…...
Michael Peregrine: President Dwight D. Eisenhower deserves history’s gratitude, not its indifference
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (379+ words) The Interstate Highway System is named after him. The nation's newest memorial honors him. And the fastest path (sometimes) from downtown heading west is an expressway bearing his name. Dwight D. Eisenhower was one of the most consequential American leaders of…...
From Abe Lincoln in Evanston to German POWs in Glenview, Winnetka History exhibit tells tales
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (858+ words) Did you know Abe Lincoln gave an impromptu speech on a front porch at Ridge and Church in Evanston? How about the Underground Railroad coursing through the North Shore to a safe house? And then providing transport to refuge via…...
WWII Navy veteran Ira ‘Ike’ Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (486+ words) World War II Navy veteran Ira "Ike" Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. With his passing, there remain only about a dozen survivors of the surprise attack,…...
Column: How little books, millions of them, helped in Word War II
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (631+ words) He did not talk much about the war as I was growing up, but he did tell me about some of the books he read when the guns were silent. It is one of the most remarkable if relatively forgotten…...
104-year-old Gary veteran to receive Amvets award for service
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (874+ words) About 58 years after his retirement from the U.S. Army, Oscar Primm Jr. of Gary will wear his uniform one more time on Sunday. "He still has the shirt," said Cassandra Primm, Oscar Primm's wife. "But I'm getting him khakis and some…...
Veterans honored during Waukegan ceremony, procession: ‘We see you and we thank you’
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (750+ words) During his Veterans Day speech, Waukegan American Legion Post 281 Commander Duane Peacy urged the younger people in a crowd of more than 200 to listen to their elders, who are veterans of the U.S. military. Peacy talked about the end of World…...
Veterans honored in Northbrook ceremony: ‘Thank you for protecting our country’
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (396+ words) Northbrook Junior High School hosted veterans at the Northbrook Veterans Day ceremony on Tuesday morning. Veterans in American Legion George W. Benjamin Post 791 were joined by middle schoolers, faculty and guests at the packed assembly in the school gym. Chaplain Thomas…...