There was, apparently, some anger within NPR when two of its journalists — David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna — were killed when their Humvee was hit by heavy weapons fire while they were covering the war in Afghanistan last June.
Why were they in harm’s way? Could their deaths have been avoided.
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Clare Hollingworth has died at 105, and there’s a fair chance you have no idea who she is. But it’s a pretty neat thing to have in your obit that you’re the one who told the world that World War II had started. Read more →
We all probably have different definitions of luxury but for a kid like me who grew up having to trudge through the woods across the street to get to the “hockey pond,” a backyard rink certainly qualifies.
So we salivate just a bit at what Shawn Carlon has done at his home in Maple Grove. Read more →
When Frederick C. Sylvia, Jr, of Achusnet, Mass., died five years ago next month, an honor guard played taps and presented an American flag to his family, a fitting tribute to a man who fought with Gen. Patton in World War II.
But his son couldn’t stop thinking about the medals — especially the Victory Medal — that he’d promised his dad he’d be buried with. He didn’t have the heart to tell him in his dad’s last days that they’d been stolen. Read more →
It’s a stunning display of courage in the interest of journalism turned in by a photographer for the Associated Press today. Read more →
Having just worked my way through Scott Berg’s long biography of Charles Lindbergh, and being a huge fan of John Glenn since I was a boy, Bill Flanagan’s commentary on Glenn (and Lindbergh) this morning was particularly riveting. Read more →
We can only imagine what goes through the mind of politicians like Newt Gingrich, who this afternoon, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor, chose to issue an incredibly tone-deaf tweet, even by today’s standards. Read more →
There are angels who walk among us, but they are no match for the evil of war. Anas al-Basha could have left Aleppo any time but he stayed behind, trying to maintain a civil society. Al-Basha could make kids laugh. He’s a clown. Now, he’s dead.
There are only a handful of survivors of the USS Arizona from the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago next week. And his family says Donald Stratton still jumps when there’s a loud noise, owing to the bomb that scored a direct hit on his battleship. Read more →
Hoover was a World War II fighter pilot, a former Air Force test pilot and the chase plane pilot for Chuck Yeager when he broke the sound barrier for the first time. Read more →
George Fricovsky, 90, never really liked school very much. But he had other things to do when he was 18. Like getting drafted into the Army. Read more →
Raymond Haerry, 94, of Rhode Island, didn’t do much talking in August on his experience on the USS Arizona the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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Perhaps if someone in Aleppo dressed as a clown, the horrors taking place there could get a little attention. Read more →
Here’s your daily dose of bittersweetness. Michael Reagan, an artist in Edmonds, Washington, could probably be making bigger bucks as an artist. But making bigger bucks isn’t his passion right now. Drawing the images of every service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan is. He got a fair amount of publicity in the last decade Read more →
It was a pretty neat scene in Faribault yesterday when a replica of the Vietnam War memorial wall made its way from Owatonna to the city. Read more →
Bob Collins