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6/12/2022

"Our Best Memorial to the Dead Would be Our Service to the Living"

by Allison S. Finkelstein

An overlooked cohort of American women who served in the first world war worked to establish service, instead of statuary, as a mode of memorialization. Their example offers a path out of the heated politics of commemoration.

SOURCE: New York Times
1/11/2022

The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible

Veterans of post-9/11 wars are increasingly showing serious lung damage. Is the Pentagon concealing the role of "burn pits" in creating airborne toxins?

SOURCE: NPR
1/5/2022

Lawrence Brooks, Oldest Surviving WWII Veteran, Dies at 112

"Throughout his service in Australia, Brooks enjoyed a level of freedom he'd never experienced before, either in the military or at home. In interviews with the National World War II Museum, he marveled over that country's acceptance of Black soldiers, which were a marked contrast to the racist Jim Crow laws of the south at the time."

SOURCE: AARP
11/30/2021

6 Inspiring Stories From Those who Remember the Pearl Harbor Attack

Learn more about the experiences of a diverse group of Americans who remember the Pearl Harbor attacks.

SOURCE: TomDispatch
8/3/2021

Moral Injury and the Forever Wars

by Kelly Denton-Borhaug

"Andy’s story clarifies a reality Americans badly need to grasp: the destruction of war goes far beyond its intended targets. In the end, its violence is impossible to control."

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
7/8/2021

Obituary: Henry Parham, Last of A Black Unit that Fought at D-Day, Dies at 99

“'We landed in water up to our necks,' Mr. Parham said, recalling a shorter man in his unit who had to be carried onto the beach because the water was over his head and he couldn’t swim."

SOURCE: Washington Post
3/31/2021

A Black WWII Veteran Was Beaten and Blinded, Fueling Civil Rights Movement

A new documentary examines the attack on Isaac Woodward in 1946, which catalyzed demands for full citizenship and civil rights.

3/14/2021

Recommitting America to Historical Principles of Obligation to Veterans

by T. Nelson Collier

Policy that frames benefits to veterans as gratuities ignores a historical tradition of social responsibility for veteran care as an integral aspect of the common defense.

SOURCE: Washington Post
1/2/2021

Man Travels to Virginia in Quest to Interview WWII Veterans

A young Californian has traveled across the world after founding a nonprofit agency to collect and preserve the stories of surviving World War II veterans.

12/6/2020

Recognizing an Unrecognized Chinese American WWII Veteran

by A.J. Wong

In December, Congress honored all Chinese American World War II veterans with the Congressional Gold Medal, and some of their families will be eligible to receive a replica medal in their names. Hoy You Lim (林開祐) was killed in action in France in 1944. None of his survivors could complete the paperwork to receive his medal. The granddaughter of another Chinese American veteran wants to recognize his service.

SOURCE: WBUR
11/11/2020

New Memoir Tells Tale Of 1967 Beer Run To Vietnam

John "Chick" Donohue was in a bar in Inwood in upper Manhattan in 1967 when the bartender suggested the neighborhood's contingent of troops in Vietnam would appreciate a beer. He made the delivery. His new book explains how.

9/20/2020

Breaking Lincoln's Promise

by Shannon Bontrager

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address demanded that Americans keep the memory of both the Union dead and their cause alive and "hot." The cooling of that memory has enabled backlashes against justice through history, and today.

SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/3/2020

Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’

Sources close to Donald Trump cite multiple instances where the self-sacrifice of military personnel appeared incomprehensible to the President, who, those sources say, has expressed contempt for the military dead.

SOURCE: History.com
8/5/2020

Black Americans Who Served in WWII Faced Segregation and Second-Class Roles

“The experience was very dispiriting for a lot of Black soldiers,” says Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College and author of "Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers."

SOURCE: New York Times
7/30/2020

Returning From War, Returning to Racism

Historians and scholars including Ira Katznelson, Jeffrey Sammons, Edward Humes, Richard Rothstein, David H. Onkst, and Charissa Threat describe the difficulties faced by Black veterans of World War II returning to a racist society.

SOURCE: TomDispatch
7/12/2020

Veterans Go to Washington--So What?

by Nan Levinson

Speculation about the effects of electing veterans to national office is seldom historically informed. Although it's assumed military experience and leadership would shape a legislator's vote, today's partisanship is probably the biggest influence.

SOURCE: New York Times
5/25/2020

They Survived the Worst Battles of World War II. And Died of the Virus.

The virus has spread in more than 40 veterans’ homes in more than 20 states, leading to the deaths of at least 300 people.

SOURCE: New York Times
5/24/2020

June Willenz, Champion of Women in the Military, Dies at 95

She didn’t serve in the military herself. But she saw the armed services denying equal benefits to female veterans, and she crusaded to make a difference.

2/16/20

“Patriotic” Veterans Only, Please

by Gregory A. Daddis

While perhaps an indication of our current toxic political environment, the attacks on “unpatriotic” veterans like U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman actually have a long and checkered history in post-World War II America.

SOURCE: The Washington Post
1/17/20

Can Historical Analysis Help Reduce Military Deaths By Suicide?

by Jeffrey Smith, Michael Doidge, Ryan Hanoa, and B. Christopher Frueh

A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.