Romance in the military is no easy task. Looking for love amid deployments, exercises, and regular duty station moves across the world is daunting even for the most avid believers in love and all that other crap you see in Disney movies during which I pretend very hard not to cry. Even so, the search …
SAN DIEGO — Clayton Schenkelberg, who at age 103 was believed to be America’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor, died April 14 at a senior care facility in San Diego. Born a year before the Spanish flu swept the country, his final year included a run-in with the current pandemic, COVID-19. He caught it but didn’t …
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.” Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal met with David Satterfield late Saturday to express Ankara’s strong condemnation. “The statement does not have legal ground …
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The Biden administration’s plan to bring all American troops home from Afghanistan by September was cause for both relief and worry for three New Hampshire mothers whose sons were killed in combat overseas. “For me, it’s 15 years too late,” Jean Durgin of Henniker said last week. Her son, Army Sgt. Russell Durgin, was killed …
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BANYUWANGI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s military on Sunday officially admitted there was no hope of finding survivors from a submarine that sank and broke apart last week with 53 crew members aboard, and that search teams had located the vessel’s wreckage on the ocean floor. The grim announcement comes a day after Indonesia said the …
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