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Will Thomas: Let's wage peace instead of war
4+ hour, 30+ min ago (705+ words) Memorial Day means different things to different people. For some, it's attending a military parade, visiting a cemetery, grilling burgers, or going to the beach. As a U. S. Navy veteran, on this solemn day, I remember all those who have fallen…...
Manchester Marine accounted for from World War II
1+ week, 1+ day ago (223+ words) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recently announced that U. S. Marine Corps Pfc. Edgar R. Norcross, 18, of Manchester, who was killed during World War II, was accounted for on June 12, 2025. Norcross's family recently received their full briefing on his identification; therefore, additional…...
Nuclear attack submarine USS Massachusetts commissioned in Boston
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (632+ words) The future USS Massachusetts is the 25th Virginia class submarine produced through the combined efforts of HII-Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) and General Dynamics Electric Boat. The U. S. Navy accepted delivery of the submarine from NNS on Nov. 21. BOSTON " The Bay State's proud…...
On Nashua: How the Ascher family embraced love in the face of unspeakable cruelty
4+ week, 22+ hour ago (871+ words) Three of the more than 50 residents of Nashua's Hunt Community who attended Sonia Ascher's book signing last month listen to her read excerpts from the book. Sonia Ascher, a Nashua resident who just completed her second book detailing her family's…...
Students, teacher honor NH veterans in cemetery project
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (224+ words) Union Leader. com Megan Philbrook, a teacher at Andover Elementary/Middle School in Boscawen, and some of her students visited the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery on March 10 to honor veterans Cpl Rudolph Eugene Miniutti and Cpl Reginald Guy Walker…...
Veteran U. S. Navy pilot to speak of military career at Aviation Museum on March 26
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (481+ words) More than a decade ago, retired U. S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Lynn "Skip" Carter donated his Navy flight suit to the Aviation Museum of N. H. in Londonderry. Since then, it"s been displayed on a mannequin "guarding" the entrance to the museum"s…...
Attack submarine named USS Charlotte involved in the Iran war. How it got its name
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (428+ words) USS Charlotte (SSN-766) off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 20, 2002. An Advanced Seal Delivery System is attached aft of the sail. The vessel firing the two torpedoes that sank that ship, the IRIS Dena, was a U. S. nuclear attack submarine that…...
Carleigh Beriont: Nobody voted for war
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (921+ words) I have spent my career studying the consequences of U. S. military action. I teach about international conflict and diplomacy. I have lived in communities still scarred by the legacy of U. S. nuclear testing. I do not romanticize war or underestimate how quickly…...
Swim With A Mission announces $15, 000 matching grant fo Gulf Wars and War on Terror Memorial in Manchester
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (430+ words) The U. S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone headed toward a U. S" American Legion Post 27 in Londonderry recently received a g" How the Gulf Wars and War on Terror Memorial will appear once completed. Swim With A Mission (SWAM) has announced…...
Veterans, civilians gather in downtown Nashua for solemn observance of 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (399+ words) Herb Townsend, right, chaplain of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 483, and Richard Mohrmann, who at 100 years old is Nashua's longest living World War II veteran, salute during the playing of taps at Nashua's 84th annual observance of the Pearl Harbor attack....