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A new program unites West Coast readers for stories of Japanese American incarceration
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (1000+ words) "They Called Us Enemy" is a 2019 graphic novel focused on Takei's experiences during the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. A new program dubbed "the largest book club on the West Coast" is uniting libraries to explore an often…...
Ira "Ike" Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105 in Beaverton
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (492+ words) Claire Rush / AP 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…...
With Oregon veteran sidelined by illness, Pearl Harbor marks first remembrance without survivors present
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (921+ words) Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base's waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive " all centenarians " and this year none is able to…...
The Trump administration move to study aluminum in vaccines worries scientists
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (749+ words) The flu vaccine is among those that contain an aluminum additive. The Trump administration is questioning the safety of such additives. Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance / dpa/picture alliance via Getty I The Trump administration is studying the safety of an…...
Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (1087+ words) A visitor lights incense sticks at the Peace Memorial Park ahead of the memorial service to mark the 80th anniversary of the WWII U. S. atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Japan. HIROSHIMA, Japan " Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the…...
3 World War II bombs are defused in a German city's biggest postwar evacuation
10+ mon, 6+ day ago (240+ words) Ambulances drive to the Eduardus Hospital in Cologne-Deutz to evacuate the hospital before specialists defuse three unexploded U. S. bombs from World War II that were unearthed earlier this week in Cologne, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Three unexploded U. S. bombs from World War II were…...
My moment of liberation: Holocaust survivor reflects on 80 years since emancipation at Dachau
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (836+ words) The Dachau concentration camp memorial site where more than 43, 000 people were murdered and over 200, 000 were imprisoned during the Nazi terror reign from 1933-1945 in Dachau, Germany, Thursday, April 24, 2025, a few days before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. (Matthias…...