Authorities say they've identified a man they believe killed a World War II veteran who worked as a milkman in a Florida cold case that dates back 56 years
Collective moments are a fascinating thing to examine. When society fixates on something, it tells us about our internal processes and what is bothering us or drawing our curiosity. This happened in the late 1990s with the explosion in popularity of World War II movies. Half a century after the defeat of the Nazis, filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Terrance Mallick, Clint Eastwood and more began pumping out historical military projects like 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'The Thin Red Line,' 'Flags of...
President Joe Biden on Wednesday mischaracterized the circumstances of his uncle's death during World War II as he lambasted former President Donald Trump's comments about the military. "He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea," Biden said during his remarks invoking his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan. However, U.S. military records about Finnegan's death do not mention the aircraft's...
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (WETM) – The Watkins Glen Public Library will be hosting a seed-saving workshop this weekend for those who are interested in saving their seeds for next year. The workshop will take place on Saturday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to noon at the library. Owner of Muddy Fingers Farm Matthew Glen and []
MCALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The McAllen Public Library invites families to join its award-winning Día de los Niños celebration, honoring El Día De Los Niños and El Día De Los Libros (Children’s Day/ Book Day). As a nationally recognized initiative, Día De Los Niños is an extension of Children’s Day, which was established in 1925 []
President Joe Biden appeared to suggest that cannibals ate his uncle after he was shot down during World War II, though military records say otherwise. Speaking with reporters on Wednesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden twice recalled the story of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific theater […]
Lompoc Public Library System’s Village Library announced it will be offering a "seed library" program.
Private First Class (PFC) Noah Reeves got a well deserved hero's welcome home at the Birmingham Airport Thursday. A casket draped in the American flag carrying his remains was escorted by an honor guard into a hearse before a procession began.
The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II have been digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced Wednesday. The website, known as one of the largest global online resources of family history, is collaborating with the Irei Project, which
Investigators say two people came forward after death of man who killed Hiram ‘Ross’ Grayam in 1968More than five decades after a second world war veteran was killed while working as a milkman in Florida, investigators say they have solved the case thanks to two people who came forward after the killer died.Hiram “Ross” Grayam was delivering milk in April 1968 and failed to return home after work. Deputies later found his body and his milk truck deep in the woods in the Vero Beach area, the...
Private First Class (PFC) Noah Reeves got a well deserved hero's welcome home at the Birmingham Airport Thursday. A casket draped in the American flag carrying his remains was escorted by an honor guard into a hearse before a procession began.
The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced Wednesday.