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Memorial Day 2023: A soldier’s extraordinary speech on a somber day | Monday Morning Coffee
In 1945, Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott Jr. turned his back on his audience and apologized to the dead buried behind him
Let’s not whitewash the racism from American history | Opinion
It’s true that 125,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were forced from their homes and businesses.
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022: We need to remember now more than ever | Opinion
We should all raise our voices to affirm that hate is hate, and that it is our responsibility to interrupt and disrupt antisemitism and other forms of hate whenever and wherever we witness it.
Pa.’s Toomey, Md. lawmaker back bill to award Medal of Honor to Black D-Day hero from Philly
More than 1 million Black Americans served in World War II. Not one received the Medal of Honor, even though white soldiers did.
D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbours | Analysis
The Allies armies needed to get at least 150,000 soldiers, military personnel and all their equipment ashore on D-Day. Here's how that happened.
D-Day 75th Anniversary: The horrible waste of war | Ernie Pyle
(Editor’s Note: In conjunction with the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the Capital-Star is reprinting the timeless work of World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle. Over the next three days, we’ll be running a selection of Pyle’s columns from the Normandy beaches, in tribute to this turning point in history, and the men and women who served.) […]
D-Day 75th Anniversary: A pure miracle | Ernie Pyle
In this column I want to tell you what the opening of the second front in this one sector entailed, so that you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those both dead and alive who did it for you.