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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

War

War

1,000 Words: The faces of D-Day

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2019, 8:36 AM May 24, 2019
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The Associated Press invited us to pause and reflect on the past by taking another long look at the present: images of the men who are still able to return to Europe for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
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War

The plane that led D-Day is flying back to Normandy

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2019, 2:44 PM May 21, 2019
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With the 75th anniversary of D-Day coming, dozens of C-47s — the military version of the DC-3 — are on their way to the coast of France. And this derelict is getting some well-deserved attention. Read more →

War

A beer for the war that never ended

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 15, 2019, 8:54 AM May 15, 2019
4

The daughter of a Marine, the first service member killed in the war in Kuwait/Iraq, raises money for a memorial with a new beer. Read more →

War

NewsCut Flashback: Vietnam

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 7, 2019, 1:14 PM May 7, 2019
4

It was on this date in 1975 that President Gerald Ford announced that the Vietnam War era was over, a declaration that doesn’t even register a blip on the historical calendar because the war actually ended more than a week earlier when Ford told a graduating class at Tulane University that for America, the war was over. Read more →

Regional history · War

Newscut Flashback: The women of World War II

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 25, 2019, 3:59 PM Apr 25, 2019
3

Not long after NewsCut was hatched, I drove around the state interviewing women who had served in World War II for a series on women and the war.  Whenever I contacted one of my intended subjects, their response was almost always the same: ‘I’m not very newsworthy.’ They were wrong, of course. Everyone’s got a  story worth telling. Read more →

War

Doolittle’s Raiders: And then there were none

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 9, 2019, 12:46 PM Apr 9, 2019
1

Lt. Col. Richard Cole was 103 when he died Monday morning in San Antonio.
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War

The picture in the wallet

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 9, 2019, 7:49 AM Apr 9, 2019
6

As of this morning, I have written 16,057 NewsCut posts since starting the blog. None of them have reached so deeply into the hearts of individuals as the original post about the picture. None keeps coming back to life like that one.
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War

No happy ending for Syrian family embraced by Canadian city

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 20, 2019, 7:15 AM Feb 20, 2019
11

Today’s story is about seeing the big picture, particularly for parents who are outraged that school has been canceled around here today and their kids are safe at home and presenting quite an inconvenience. Read more →

War

Sailor in iconic VJ Day photo dead at 95

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 18, 2019, 4:02 PM Feb 18, 2019
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George Mendonsa has died and you’re forgiven if the name doesn’t ring a bell. For a number of years, we only knew him by one moment on V-J day. Read more →

War

Vets with no family not forgotten at funerals

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 14, 2019, 12:32 PM Feb 14, 2019
2

It was entirely predictable what would happen today at the funeral for James McCue, 97, who died at a home for old folks in Methuen, Mass., outliving all the family he had. Read more →

War

Oldest WWII vet dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2018, 10:21 PM Dec 27, 2018
2

Richard Overton had a good answer when asked his secret to living to 112.

‘Not dying,’ he said. Read more →

War

A war with child soldiers

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2018, 7:08 AM Dec 19, 2018
15

There are hardly words left to say after reading the Associated Press’ investigation revealing that rebels in Yemen are going door to door to grab children to fight as soldiers. Read more →

War

Too old, too frail, survivors of the USS Arizona to miss annual ceremony

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 5, 2018, 2:54 PM Dec 5, 2018
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There are only five men left of the survivors of the USS Arizona, sunk by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor 77 years ago Friday.

For the first time in years, no survivor of the Arizona will make the trip to Oahu for ceremonies and return the salute as a Navy ship passes by the memorial. Read more →

War

Washington Post journalist is likely casualty in the war on truth

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 8, 2018, 7:03 AM Oct 8, 2018
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A Saudi journalist is probably dead because there’s no country left on the planet using its moral authority to prevent the killing of those who seek the truth about power. Read more →

Health · War

Effort to help veterans scarred by war scares La Crosse neighborhood

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 2, 2018, 10:18 AM Oct 2, 2018
27

Talk is cheap and nowhere is it more inexpensive than La Crosse, Wis., where neighbors say they support veterans of the military. Read more →

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