A. J. Liebling goes to war

The Boston Globe;  March 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ...A Reading Life A.J. Liebling is best known for writing...and civilized good time." Liebling, who had spent a year in...Library of America's "A.J. Liebling: World War II Writings" ($40). As it happened, Liebling's taste for fighting extended...of America's "Reporting World ...

Hot topic in Germany: aggression in World War I; Sunday marked the 90th...

The Christian Science Monitor;  August 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......largely responsible for the outbreak of World War I. To a population that had grown up...theories that test old notions about World War I are surfacing. Already this year, there...more students are showing an interest in World War I courses. I have noticed that World...

Veterans of World War II find themselves richly, newly celebrated.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......years ago, Bill Guarnere's heroics in World War II were mostly unknown even to his neighbors...Guarnere is an extreme version of what many World War II veterans have experienced recently...weekend with the dedication of the National World War II Memorial in Washington. As they ...

MONUMENT TO CONVEY WORLD WAR II'S ESSENCE.(NEWS)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 9, 1997 ;     700+ words ......York Times The idea for the $100 million World War II memorial to be built on the Mall in...the voice of a retired mail carrier and World War II veteran came booming across the room...Durbin calling out. ``Why isn't there a World War II memorial in Washington?'' ``There...

Remembering World War I

Special Report with Brit Hume (Fox News Network);  June 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ......HUME: To many Americans, the Second World War and the cold war are the defining military...interests. But many historians have regarded World War I, with its much more ambiguous roots...of that war entitled simply The First World War. And he joins me here now. Welcome, sir...

PROJECT WOULD RECORD WORLD WAR II MEMORIES.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......incredible stories that Washington's World War II veterans carry in their memories...project to help educators teach about World War II. Using stories collected from veterans...available in libraries and through the World War II Foundation, an Olymbia-based organization...

WORLD WAR II IN FULL FORCE AT NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 12, 2007 ;     534 words ......History issued the following news release: World War II and America's "greatest generation...Sept. 20, and step back to the days of World War II during a Family Day event on Sept...exhibit Everybody's War: North Carolina and World War II, opening Sept. 18. The exhibit's artifacts...

WWI's 'rightful place': The organizers of a new museum in Kansas City hope...

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  November 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......called doughboys, not GI Joes. For Americans, World War I is the second-place world war. Although the conflict's death and devastation...the men and women who fought and served in World War II, has pushed the earlier conflict even further...

ANALYSIS-U.S.: GOP TESTS HOW 'WORLD WAR III' SOUNDS TO VOTERS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......global conflagration on the order of a world war was more the stuff of Biblical prophecy...constituted the initial stages of a new world war. But during the past week or so, with...the public that the U.S. is engaged in World War III. Gingrich made national headlines...

The National World War II Museum to Host Film Conference Examining How a...

PR Newswire;  January 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Real to Reel: World War II in Film, Documentaries & Newsreels...The Second International Conference on World War II this April NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The pivotal years of World War II have influenced and inspired filmmakers...

State's veterans chip in for World War II memorial

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 13, 2000 ;     458 words ...State's veterans chip in for World War II memorial Even those who fought in...13, 2000 A national monument honoring World War II veterans has the financial and emotional...Tradewell, a Vietnam veteran. "It was time (World War II veterans) had their place to go...

Few, but not forgotten; Surviving WWI vet belongs to dwindling, elite rank...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 11, 1998 ;     700+ words ......declared between the Allies and Germany in World War I. Ed Vandergon, 99, of Buffalo, is one of...day. He also may be the only living Minnesota World War I veteran who served in World War II - in his case, as an act of conscience...

African-Americans fought racism on two fronts in World War II

Washington Afro-American;  May 6, 1995 ;     700+ words ......African-Americans fought racism on two fronts in World War II. Historian Theodore Ropp writes that, "World War II killed more persons, cost more money...Well before the official U.S. entry into World War II, African-Americans were daily engaged...

HARD-FOUGHT; Salute in stone culmination of a 17-year campaign.(WORLD WAR...

The Washington Times;  May 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......WASHINGTON TIMES A national memorial to honor World War II veterans seemed like a simple, popular...the official dedication of the National World War II Memorial May 29, during Memorial Day...Kaptur says. That's why there was no World War II memorial before, because they never...

D.C. memorial to be dedicated to World War II

Ukrainian Weekly, The;  February 13, 2000 ;     477 words ......02-13-2000 D.C. memorial to be dedicated to World War II ARLINGTON, Va. - Members of the World War II generation will all soon have their own...Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial will be funded primarily through...