Pearl Harbor survivor recalls unheeded warning from radar station
The USS Arizona (BB 39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. Seventy-five years ago today,
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Dashiell Hammett: The man of mystery
“Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery,” Sally Cline, 272 pages, Arcade Publishing, 2016 (Review by Bill Hughes) His family roots ran
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Not to be a pessimist, but I couldn’t help thinking back to 2008 last night when I saw so many
Read moreFather’s Day offers solemn reminder of fathers lost in war
Edward A. Peters III is proud of the portrait which shows him on the lap of his uniformed father –
Read moreOkinawa: Revisiting the final battle
Photo above: A Marine looks over the ruins of Naha, capital of Okinawa. This article first ran July 5, 1995
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Photo above: Marines on Okinawa (National Archives) This article first ran July 5, 1995 in the Towson Times and other
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Photo above: Okinawa Cornerstone of Peace Park by mdid with Flickr Creative Commons License This article first ran July 5, 1995
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Photo above: The landing beaches on Okinawa (National Archives) By Len Lazarick [email protected] The largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific
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My mother in law, Maria Nikolaevna, was born in Lviv in the 1920s. In 1340 Lviv was part of Poland
Read moreArnaud de Borchgrave: Visionary genius
Arnaud de Borchgrave, the legendary Newsweek foreign correspondent and head of The Washington Times and UPI who died Sunday at
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