6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1840+ words) On the evening of March 16, 1945, Sten Gould stood on the gangplank of the Queen Mary, docked in New York Harbor, close enough to see the city lights but forbidden from stepping off. "Felt sort of sad as I looked at…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (516+ words) Out of the 16.4 million U.S. soldiers who served in World War II, and the less than 50,000 still living, what are the chances that two of those veterans who fought in the same battle would meet 82 years later, living in the same…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (693+ words) It’s been almost 58 years since Army veteran Robert Hendricks witnessed some of the worst moments of the Vietnam War, but those stark memories remained burned into his subconscious. After receiving his draft notice in the mail from Selective Service, Hendricks…...

9+ mon, 4+ day ago   (860+ words) With Dec. 7 marking the 84th anniversary and with so few veterans who witnessed that awful day first-hand remaining, the attack on Pearl Harbor seems like a moment fading into history with each passing year. However, for two World War II veterans…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1907+ words) Growing up on a farm in north-central Kansas, Jim Sharp thought he had seen his share of cold weather. That was before he spent the winter of 1944-45 living in a foxhole in the middle of the Ardennes Forest. He never…...