Hundreds gather at largest American World War II cemetery in Europe to remember the more than 10,000 troops buried there.
Hundreds gather at largest American World War II cemetery in Europe to remember the more than 10,000 troops buried there.
Alfred Arrieta, 100, was a medic serving in France during World War II. He flew 32 missions, was shot down on Christmas Eve 1944 and crash-landed in a farm field in France. He turned 100 earlier this month. “I’m here, very grateful and proud of my country.”
In the wake of Super Typhoon Mawar’s passing over Guam last week, Saturday’s island football championship game pitting Guam High vs. Father Duenas Memorial has been postponed.
The fate of Harry Watson became a detective story that took 10 years to solve — a case of mistaken identity that the detailed recollections of a gravedigger and a letter from a Raleigh dentist describing the missing soldier’s gold tooth.
Well-tended cemeteries in several European countries provide places of rest for American service members who have fallen in World War I and World War II. Several hold free commemorative events this weekend for Memorial Day.
