5+ hour, 24+ min ago  (120+ words) Letter: Winston Churchill up close'seMissourian Letter: Winston Churchill up close Cape Girardeau resident recalls seeing Churchill and Truman up close at the 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech, 80 years after their visit to Westminster College in Fulton. Thursday, March 5, marked the 80th anniversary of…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (184+ words) Veterans Day is officially next week, but we generally get a little bit of a head start each year. The holiday's origins date to 1918 when on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice was declared in World…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (876+ words) (RNS) " In 1775, a year before there was a United States and six weeks after the Continental Army was formed, George Washington made a declaration that has shaped the military ever since. "We need chaplains," he reportedly remarked, prompting action by…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (588+ words) Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the people of Japan that "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." He was originally going to say that "the war…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (260+ words) Naruhito, accompanied by his wife, Empress Masako, bowed deeply at the cenotaph for the atomic bombing victims and offered bouquets of white flowers. The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people....

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1366+ words) A look back at the memorials and ceremonies honoring Cape Girardeau County's fallen heroes from World War I through Vietnam, and the enduring efforts to preserve their legacy at Capaha Park. The service boards at the corner of Broadway and…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (289+ words) MOSCOW (AP) " A military parade began Friday on Red Square in Moscow as Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. President Vladimir Putin and a host of ... Russia's Victory Day parade begins, marking the…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1057+ words) Hundreds of villagers and relatives of the fallen watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers who died in one of the last large World War II battles fighting for Adolf Hitler's army got their final resting…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago  (631+ words) After decades of division and its revival as the capital of a reunited, democratic Germany, the city is now transformed, blending painstakingly restored buildings with modern architecture. But the scars of the past remain visible in many places: facades riddled…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (645+ words) AURORA, Colo. (AP) " With members of a trailblazing Black Air Force unit passing away at advanced ages, efforts to remain true to their memory carry on despite sometimes confusing orders from ... Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few…...