Mark Mitchell, who earned the Distinguished Service Cross while serving in Afghanistan, said, “We don’t fight for idols or ...
La douleur m’a brisée, la fraternité m’a relevée, de ma blessure a jailli un fleuve de liberté” “Pain broke me, brotherhood ...
A York D-Day veteran was honoured at an annual event and his recital from a Second World War poem was greeted with warm applause and a few tears were shed. Ken Cooke, 99, and his support crew were ...
GW students visited the Normandy American Cemetery on an academic short-term abroad program during spring break.
On this day, Operation Overlord began as Allied forces lined up against the Axis powers and began an invasion of Normandy, France. When the Allies needed to pick an appropriate landing site ...
Evers and other service members in such sections are still on the website, an Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson told HuffPost ... of all time,” said Anderson of Evers, who fought in Normandy ...
Arlington National Cemetery tells 7News that chapel availability ... in England in November 1943 and was on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in July 1944. His unit “kept the wheels rolling ...
Medgar Evers, a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi, is among service members whose histories have been scrubbed from the site.
Medgar Evers, whom President Trump called “a great American hero,” has been erased from the website which featured a section ...
A visitor to Arlington National Cemetery's website earlier this year would have seen links to information about a wide range of notable African Americans, Hispanic Americans and women buried there.