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Memorial Day 2012

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.27.2012 | Politics
Read More: Memorial Day, Afghanistan, Vietnam War, World War 1, Korean War, American, American Flag, Iraq, World War 2, Civil War, Politics News
Joe Peyronnin

This weekend the United States celebrates Memorial Day. Sadly, for many Americans the holiday mostly marks the beginning of summer rather than a time to remember those who gave their lives in service to their country.

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Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn't End War and Its Unending Successors

Adam Hochschild | Posted 07.03.2011 | World
Read More: Cost of War, Afghanistan War, US Wars, Saddam Hussein, War in Afghanistan, Iraq War, War, World War 1, World News
Adam Hochschild

Would the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan come to a halt more quickly if we could see hundreds of thousands of tombstones, military and civilian, spreading hill after hill, field after field, across our landscape?

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WWI Soldier Representative of Connection Between Ireland and America

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Arlington National Cemetery, Annie Moore, St. Patrick's Day, World War 1, Ireland, United States, Wwi, Barack Obama, Funeral, Census, Soldiers, Army, Military, Ancestry, Genealogy, Barry Manilow, Irish, Family History, Ellis Island, Ww1 Surviror, Wwi Survivor, World War 1 Survivor, Thomas Costello, World News
Megan Smolenyak

With St. Patrick's Day looming, then, I hope you'll understand that I have no choice but to surrender to my genetic urges and write of yet another link between our two countries: Private Thomas D. Costello.

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Journalist Recalls Interviewing Last Surviving American WWI Veteran

aolnews.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: The Great War, Frank Buckles Wwi Vet, Arlington National Cemetery, Jay Rockefeller, World War 1, Charles-Town-West-Virginia, Veterans-History-Project, General Douglas MacArthur, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Frank Buckles, World War I, Wwii, Frank-Buckles-Oldest-World-War-I-Vet-Dies, Capitol-Rotunda, World-War-1-Veterans, World War II, Frank Woodruff Buckles, Douglas MacArthur, Books News

I met Frank Woodruff Buckles on a chilly March afternoon in 2007 at his farmhouse in Charles Town, W.Va. He was a mere 106 years old back then. The l...

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The Ghosts of Yalta Haunt Us Today

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Russia, World War 11, Czar Nicholas, World War 1, Yalta, World News
Eric Margolis

In Yalta in February, 1945, US President Franklin Roosevelt, Britain's Winston Churchill, and Soviet ruler Josef Stalin met to decide postwar Europe's future.

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One of Last 2 WWI Vets in US Dies

AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: WWI, WWI Veterans, World War 1, World War 1 Veterans, Home News

TAMPA, Fla. — Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has d...

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