Emotions ran high as speakers recalled the sacrifices of their fallen “brothers and sisters,” with more than 58,000 names of ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A Vietnam War veteran from Rockford is dedicated to making sure no soldier’s sacrifice is forgotten. Nick Parnello was 20 years old when he enlisted in the U.S Army in 1967. In ...

Sanjeev Kumar Gupta These famous lines from the poem written by Jagdamba Prasad Mishra ‘Hitaishi’ in 1916 are as relevant, as ...

Is it better, for the health of a society, to pardon or punish the perpetrators?” Caught “between the drive to forget and the ...

Throughout the weekend, towns, historical societies and other organizations celebrated the Fourth of July in their own ways, keeping the celebration going. The Nathan Hale Homestead concluded the ...

The tears and laughter flowed in equal measure when family and friends gathered to say farewell to a veteran bell ringer.

As the Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (and pretender to the throne of Serbia) celebrates his 80th birthday with a film about his ...

TUPELO • Retired Air Force Col. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris, whose capture and subsequent imprisonment during the Vietnam War were documented in his autobiography, “Tap Code,” has died. He was 96. Harris ...

People have told V Cafe Owner KimChi Vu that her Vietnamese restaurant inside the Dubois VFW post is surprising or ironic.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Dreams are trash. Dreams are ash. A man from Los Angeles left a small ziplock bag of his ashes to me in his will.” ...

The poppies honored those killed in war. The American Legion adopted it as its official flower in 1920 to honor fallen ...