Veterans were gathering Friday on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to ...

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McLean Public School, accompanied by Roy Eaton, placed a wreath at the Children’s Memorial in Veterans Memorial Gardens at the Decoration Day service. photos by Tom Sasvari SPRING BAY—Annually, on the ...

David Blight, a professor of history and African American studies at Yale, has called the Charleston commemoration the first ...

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Mary Simon said the Unknown Soldier symbolizes the tens of thousands of Canadians who have died in the pursuit of peace and freedom.

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