Bob CollinsWalt Straka, 98, is the only surviving member of the 194th Tank Battalion in Brainerd, who were ordered to the Philippines in September 1941, a few months before Pearl Harbor. They were the first tank unit in the Far East. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
War
Someday, an alien civilization will land on a dusty planet and find a picture like this and conclude that the planet’s demise was likely due to the insane people who waged wars. Read more →
The Vietnam War isn’t over for a lot of people and the Rochester Post Bulletin’s lovely feature about Ray Winkels is proof of that.
Ray is in a wheelchair thanks to Vietnam. Read more →
Elin Ersson’s Facebook video, which is racing around the internet, is an invitation to ask ourselves, ‘what are we willing to stand for?’ Read more →
Bla Pao Yang, 74, was an American hero who spent much of his adult life fighting for the right to be recognized. Read more →
There was nothing like the Holocaust, which is why a project that made its debut this month on the internet is so important.
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Dear young Massachusetts high schooler who hasn’t had a father for a year:
Thank you for your sacrifice.
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Elaine Holstein has died. She was 96. She was also the last living parent of a victim of the Kent State killings at the hands of the Ohio National Guard. Read more →
One characteristic about the original colonies: They have a lot of dead soldiers to remember on Memorial Day.
Massachusetts, where the first shot was fired in a war that would create the United States has had 37,268 in war, stretching back to the Revolution. Read more →
Leila al-Ghandour was 8 months old when she died today from tear gas during protests in Gaza, the family claims.
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Someone will probably ask Richard Overton the secret to longevity today and he’ll respond with his usual answer: ‘Not dying.’
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The Vietnam War hasn’t ended. Just ask Lan Thi Kim Do, of Rochester, Minn., who only met her father for the first time on Wednesday when Wayne Brown, 72, of Los Angeles arrived at the airport in Rochester.
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Jerry Huffman leaves Friday for the Czech Republic, where he’ll meet the woman who posed with his dad on the day the war’s fighting ended. Read more →
In the 11 years of NewsCut, Wally Englund stands out as one of the most memorable people I’ve met in the course of learning of and telling their stories. Read more →