Ancient Civilizations to Modern-day Community Stories

As you dig through the soil, your hands uncover a rusted dog tag, a dented helmet, or a weathered insignia once proudly worn by a World War II soldier. These buried artifacts, left behind in unexpected places, connect you instantly to the human stories of the past: moments of courage,…

The Army has deleted a segment honoring Black soldiers from the Arlington National Cemetery website, including Medgar Evers among others. Medgar Evers, the late civil rights activist who was slain by a white supremacist in 1963, was previously recognized by President Donald Trump as a hero of World War II.…

Daniel Inouye of Honolulu, Hawaii, was a U.S. Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions in Italy 80 years ago today on April 21, 1945. He was also a U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. During the Japanese attack…

During World War II, the US Marine Corps (USMC) and US Navy (USN) engaged in a significant battle when they landed on and ultimately took Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The objective of the American invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was to seize the island and its…

But the French weren’t going down without a quiet fight. Instead of explosives or open rebellion, they used something far sneakier: a dipstick. Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the head of Citroën at the time, came up with a clever act of sabotage. He ordered the oil dipsticks in the trucks to be…

She is best known as one of the most accomplished female pilots to serve during World War II. Did you know that an American woman was flying the skies during the attack on Pearl Harbor? Her father wouldn’t have liked it. He’d seen the dangers of flight, and he’d hoped…

This text from Steve Lunderstedt (KIMBERLEY CALLS…AND RECALLS): “On this day, the 12th December, in 1899, as the sun rose in the sky on the battlefield of Magersfontein, the OFS burghers in the trenches closest to the wounded Scottish soldiers still lying badly wounded after some 24 hours, had heard…

Of all the war’s exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There’s no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one’s breast like a nightmare. Trenches look like…