A Monument of Change: Vivian Sims’ Tribute to Black Soldiers in the Klan’s Birthplace
In 2023, a statue to commemorate the United States Troops was erected in Pulaski, TN — an effort led by Vivian Sims.
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When the ‘Sun Tobacco Fund’ Rushed to the Trenches of World War I a Taste of Home
The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...
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Rescuers pull 30 bodies from a building in central Lebanon hit in an Israeli strike
Exploring the charms of Clinton Township The Detroit Pistons unveiled the 2024-25 City Edition uniforms that pay homage to ...
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With one selfless act, Milton Olive saves lives of company
The Vietnam jungle was so thick that it swallowed up the sunlight.  Yet there was the enemy, Charlie, the Viet Cong. It was ...
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Vivian Sims' Bold Tribute: Honoring Black Soldiers in the Birthplace of the KKK
Vivian Lee Battle Sims may not be a widely known name, but her impact on Pulaski, Tennessee, is profound. At 96, this retired ...
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Malvern Prep’s Jake Bauer is Main Line Boys Athlete of the Week (Nov. 4-10)
The 6-foot-1, 220-pound senior middle linebacker, fullback and captain has been in the middle of the Friars’ defense this ...
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EDITORIAL: Upholding Lagbaja’s legacies as army chief
T he remains of the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, were buried at the military cemetery, Abuja on Friday. It was a state funeral. He passed on, on 5 November, in Lagos after a ...
Duty Calls: Retired Army colonel receives Military Heritage Award
Retired Army Col. Kevin Weddle, a historian and author, received the Friends of the New York State Military Museum’s inaugural Preserving Our Military Heritage Award during a ceremony at the museum at ...
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The Roots of Today's Political Violence and What May Come Next | Opinion
From the Civil War to my own childhood in Louisiana in the 1950s and 1960s, to the attack on our Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, one thing is clear: MAGA politics does not confine itself to the voting booth.
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100 years of forgetting: How America’s veterans went from heroes to the forgotten
This is my third Veterans Day column, and my message has not changed. I bemoan the general decline in interest, especially among younger people, in recognizing the sacrifices that others have made to ...
Making friends with the enemy: what stories of soldiers’ unexpected battlefield meetings reveal about the trauma of war
I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely friendships.
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Remember the women veterans
Most of the nation’s veterans are indeed men, in part because of barriers to women in the military that took far too long to fall. Without diminishing the contributions of male veterans, let us this ...