by David M. Shribman Now, as we approach the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that began the liberation of Europe from Nazi control, let us praise an obscure woman. Her name was Maureen Sweeney, and she went to her grave at age 100 just six months ago — her heroics noted by ...
CHARLESTON — Woody Williams, the West Virginian who was America’s last World War II Medal of Honor recipient, could receive a place of honor in the U.S. Capitol. The state Senate Finance Committee last week advanced a resolution to honor Williams in the National Statuary Hall ...
by Paul Thornton I was sitting in our apartment in Glendale, Calif., but I may as well have been on another planet that day in 1993. My grandmother, helping me with a sixth-grade report, was vividly recalling the depredations of the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II: the ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The pointed exchanges among Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers about the U.S. commitment to Ukraine is a reminder that some policy debates never end. Like the one over U.S. overseas commitments. This renewal comes a year before President Joe ...
by Daniela Gerson My wife and I share a past that spans continents and tracks back to the Polish-Ukrainian border. Eighty-two years ago, during a frigid winter, both sets of our grandparents made the same escape from eastern Poland, ahead of the Nazis’ occupation. They crossed the ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine under several pretexts reminds me of Adolf Hitler’s rationale for invading and annexing Sudetenland in 1938 and his invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland a year later. Then, as now, the excuse was that ...