"Today, high school
honor guards are folding the flag, playing taps and firing the rifle salute at some
veterans' funerals because there aren't enough veterans to do it." |
WWII in the NewsCurrent articles appear in the news column on the Combat! web site. These are archived articles. All are links to news service articles. When the news service purges its archives, individual links may no longer function. WWII news:
Oct 20: WWII Sailors Rescue Captain's Honor Nazi-era Filmmaker Makes Appearance Oct 19: Dachau Liberator Remembers Experience Congress Votes To Air War Injustice Boston museum in pact to keep refugees' painting Oct 18: Veteran Fights For Smokers' Rights Holocaust Survivors Give Children Harrowing Lesson Oct 17: German Code Machine Turns Up at BBC New Holocaust Footage on German TV Oct 14: WWII Women Workers To Be Honored Orson Welles Betrayed to FBI by Mystery Woman Judge Orders Nazi Trial To Continue Oct 13: Reconciliation Ceremony Oct 12: Pearl Harbor Officers Exonerated
"Fifty-four years after the war ended, only 5.9 million Americans out of 16.5 million who served in it are living, and they are dying at a rate of about 1,000 per day." Washington Post
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