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From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.
Some of the memorials are highly visible and a point of pride. One has seemingly been forgotten and needs attention.
Monday is Memorial Day. The United States has fought twelve major wars and numerous smaller skirmishes in its history.
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A $45 million military parade in Washington, D.C., featuring tanks, vintage aircraft, and 7,500 troops, will mark the Army’s 250th anniversary on June 14.
One such was the most famous piece by a columnist who soared from obscurity to a place in the nation’s consciousness ...
Jacksonville lost several men in World War I, and their stories and sacrifices are remembered through local cemeteries and family histories.
In the final years of the Cold War, rising tensions in the Middle East prompted the U.S. and its allies to prepare for ...
For two days after Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander was released from 19 months of captivity in Gaza, he couldn’t eat ...
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The sinking of the Japanese prisoner ship Arisan Maru in 1944 by an American submarine, leading to the deaths of almost 1,800 ...
Most journalism is, at most, the “first rough draft of history.” Occasionally, however, there is some journalism — even of the most perishable kind: a column — that attains an immortality because of ...