CLARKSBURG – After the chaplain said a few words … and after the recording of Taps played … and after the American flag was respectfully draped over Francis Dalton’s body […]
Tag: world war II
Of scrimmages and squash: Lou Birurakis readies for his 100th birthday
BRUCETON MILLS – Lou Birurakis is already looking forward to the present he’ll receive this weekend for his 100th birthday. “I’m getting a new battery for my pacemaker,” he said, […]
North Marion High marching band back from Hawaii
FAIRMONT – The way Matt Morgan tells it, he didn’t exactly feel like the Big Kahuna as the North Marion High School marching band he directs readied for its trip […]
For the Fallen: Lt. Manown finally coming home from WWII
Together, they were their own war movie. Anthony Di Petta. Wilbur Archie Mitts. Jay Manown Jr. For generations, this trio of aviators was feared forever lost to World War II […]
But for Mrs. Sweeney, D-Day might have stood for ‘disaster’
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. […]
Tuskegee Airman Roberts worked just as hard waging peace
FAIRMONT — You never leave a wounded bird up there, on its own. That’s what they called them, the shot-up B-17s and B-24s, crippled by the German ack-ack fire and […]
Woody Williams honored in ceremony at U.S. Capitol: Marion County native was the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from World War II
If this had been a war movie, John Wayne would have materialized just in time and the music would have swelled. Except, it wasn’t a movie. It was a little […]
GOP banning books about truths its own leaders have apologized for
by Samuel G. Freedman On a recent outing my wife and I took in a touring exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution titled “Righting a Wrong.” Within the modest confines of […]
Medal of Honor recipient Woody Williams dies
Somebody’s gotta take out those pillboxes. That’s what the officer said, as he spied the smoke from the machine-gunners dug into the rock and sand. See ‘em? They’re right there. […]
