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1 day ago · Biden, like the 40th president, is facing concerns about his age in his reelection year. And on Friday he will visit the same clifftop to make a similar call to save democracy. Reagan’s Pointe ...
1 day ago · Of the 16.4 million Americans who served in the war, just 119,000 – less than 1% of them – are still alive, according to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. They are dying at a ...
19 hours ago · When a Wide Awakes rally was attacked in New Haven, the movement placed bloodied comrades onstage as proof of the suppression they faced. The movement was like a black flag, flashing across the North.
1 day ago · For Warren Goss, a 99-year-old American veteran of D-Day who landed in the first waves on Utah Beach, the sacrifice was affirmed by a visit years later to the same place where his comrades fell.
18 hours ago · The French president awarded the Legion of Honor to 14 U.S. veterans and a British female veteran. Among the Americans was Edward Berthold, a pilot who carried out his three missions over France in May 1944, before taking part in an operation in Saint-Lo, in Normandy, on D-Day. He flew 35 combat missions in all during World War II.
5 days ago · On June 6, Foy – a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge – and his fellow American veterans will join dignitaries and heads of state from around the world to commemorate the approximately 160,000 Allied troops who, eight decades ago, carried out the largest seaborne invasion in human history.
23 hours ago · On that day, over 4,400 Allied troops died, with 2,500 of them Americans. On Tuesday, June 4, the returning veterans paid tribute to their fallen comrades at Normandy American Cemetery , according ...
