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Trump jokes about Pearl Harbor attack in meeting with Japanese PM
8+ hour, 2+ min ago (238+ words) President Trump on Thursday joked about Japan's surprise attack "on Pearl Harbor during a sitdown with Japanese Prime Minister "Sanae Takaichi in Washington, D.C., Thursday Taking questions from reporters, Trump at one point called on a "beautiful person from Japan," who…...
Historic Bay Area shipyard hosts celebration as two of World War II’s legendary ‘Rosies’ turn 100
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (940+ words) RICHMOND " Dozens of well-wishers turned the S.S. Red Oak Victory, a floating World War II museum in Richmond's historic Kaiser Shipyard, into a party on Jan. 31, celebrating the 100 years of life lived by Jeanne Gibson and Marian Sousa. They popped bottles…...
Local efforts to document Japanese American incarceration show history repeating
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (883+ words) Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Executive Order 9066 was issued " the culmination of fomenting anti-Asian sentiment " and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the removal of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast. For those who know about incarceration,…...
Why abridged version of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ cuts out movie’s pivotal scene
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (854+ words) By David Goldman | CNN A soaking wet George Bailey and Clarence, warming up by the fire in the toll house on the bridge, discuss why Clarence jumped into the freezing water. It was to help George, Clarence tells him. "Only…...
Photos: Oldest National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin through the years
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (150+ words) The oldest U.S. park ranger, Betty Reid Soskin, passed away on Sunday at 104 years old. Reid Soskin was the nation's oldest active park ranger when she retired in 2022 at 100 years old. She had also served more than 15 years at the Rosie…...
WWII Navy veteran Ira ‘Ike’ Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (495+ words) By Jennifer Peltz and Jaimie Ding | Associated Press 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…...
Centenarian Navy nurse looks back on Pearl Harbor attack
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1027+ words) HONOLULU " Alongside Pearl Harbor on Sunday, long-ago Navy nurse Alice Darrow of Danville peered out to the watery spot where, amid the lethal chaos of the surprise attack 84 years earlier, a machine gun bullet struck a young sailor but didn't…...
Bay Area centenarians share what gratitude looks like at 100
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (916+ words) On a holiday centered around gratitude, some Bay Area families will gather around tables anchored by something rare: relatives who have lived a full century. Their stories stretch across time " from childhoods shaped by war and migration to adulthoods spent…...
Bay Area veteran seen reuniting with family in iconic Vietnam War-era photo dies at 92
4+ mon, 19+ min ago (435+ words) By Kathy McCormack | Associated Press "Just the feelings of that and the intensity of the feeling will never leave me," Kitching told the AP in an interview. "It is so deep in my heart, and the joy and the relief…...
106-year-old East Bay veteran battles for WWII nurses’ Congressional Gold Medal
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1106+ words) By JANIE HAR, Associated Press DANVILLE" " At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical supplies and treated…...