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ROTC cadets from ASU will travel to Poland, work to recover a missing WWII service member
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (301+ words) There are roughly 81, 000 American service members who are still listed as Missing in Action, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency or DPAA. And nearly 400 of them are from Arizona. Later this month, a group of Arizona State University…...
At Heard Museum, honor songs pay tribute to the fallen on Memorial Day
2+ week, 1+ day ago (205+ words) The Heard Museum in downtown Phoenix remembered Indigenous servicemembers during an annual Memorial Day observance at its American Indian Veterans National Memorial. On this hot Monday morning, Kiowa-Comanche singer Kenneth Cozad Sr. chants a series of honor songs. Each melody…...
Voices of Arizona: WWII veteran celebrates his 104th birthday in Flagstaff
2+ week, 5+ day ago (290+ words) Voices of Arizona is a special segment where KJZZ spotlights everyday Arizonans who help make our state an extraordinary place to live. In a Flagstaff retirement community one veteran sits with his wife and stepdaughter as the smell of BBQ…...
Meet the group of aging Arizona veterans who are helping each other
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (912+ words) It's a Tuesday morning at the Avondale senior resource center. A group of veterans are listening to Coral Hoffman, a retired Navy chief, talk about who inspired her to join. "I had a great-great-grandfather that was in the Union Army…...
These 88 USS Arizona crew members were buried as unknowns. New effort hopes to change that
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (648+ words) The U. S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery. It's part of an effort…...
Voices of Arizona: She's fighting to preserve WWII prisoner of war barracks in Tempe
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (270+ words) Voices of Arizona is a special segment where KJZZ spotlights everyday Arizonans who help make our state an extraordinary place to live. This time, we talk to a woman determined to preserve two military barracks from Camp Papago Park " a…...
Margherita Bertola Fray, Scottsdale resident who was in WWII Italian resistance, dies at 99
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (260+ words) Margherita Bertola Fray, a Scottsdale resident and one of the last members of the Italian resistance during World War II, has died at age 99. Fray grew up in Turin, Italy, during the rise of Benito Mussolini's fascist government. She served…...
Book ensures internment camp victims are highlighted in history " not erased from it
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (1236+ words) The mass internment of Japanese Americans amid World War II is among the dark chapters of U. S. history that the Trump administration is actively working to erase " being swept up in a campaign to remove so-called "disparaging" signs and markers about…...
Japanese Internment on Tribal Land " A panel conversation with KJZZ
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (408+ words) Attend a KJZZ panel discussion about the history of Japanese American internment camps located on tribal lands in Arizona. The event will be held on Jan. 14, 2026, at Chandler Museum and moderated by KJZZ tribal natural resources reporter Gabriel Pietrorazio. Beginning…...
In the shadows of Phoenix, tribe is letting crumbling internment camp fade into history
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (1763+ words) More than 120, 000 Japanese Americans were held captive inside 10 internment camps nationwide during World War II " including two in Arizona, built on Indian reservations by the U. S. War Relocation Authority without tribal consent. On Arizona's western border, the Colorado River Indian Tribes…...