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When politicians invoke "America First" today, they echo arguments first championed by Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., U.S. ambassador to Britain in 1940. Kennedy believed aiding allies would weake ...
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The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few weeks ago, a 102-year old veteran who stormed the bea ...
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At 9:02 a.m. on a terrifically hot late September Monday in San Diego, Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182, banking steeply over the North Park neighborhood on final approach to Lindbergh Field, cli ...
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At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, the guns went quiet. November 11 began as silence, not spectacle--but with ears still ringing from years of constant barrages. What we first called Armis ...
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As the Supreme Court wraps up its annual flurry of blockbuster rulings, it's easy to focus on the winners--the parties who prevailed, the doctrines that triumphed, the justices whose views ...
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Ken Khachigian, 81, of Orange County, California, was in the room with Reagan and Nixon. In the fall of 1967, Khachigian was a second-year law student at Columbia University when he wrote a letter to ...
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Sometime, someplace in the Judean Hills in the year 132 the storm broke. It had been a long time coming, but even so it shocked the Romans. It shocked them enough that it may have cost them a legion a ...
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On April 4, 2003, as the invasion of Iraq reached its critical phase, the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rdInfantry Division, seized Saddam International Airport-codenamed Objective Lions ...
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Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, with the signing of the peace treaty aboard the USS Missouri. On August 22 the last American flying ace of the war d ...
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As night followed night during 1940-1941, civilians and civil defence teams across Britain were confronted by shocking sights and sounds. The spine-tingling, stomach-churning wail of air raid sirens.
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