The diary of a Marine who recorded his first eight months of World War II in the Pacific before fighting in some of its bloodiest battles is back with his family after it surfaced 81 years later.

During the midst of the Revolutionary War, when 13 colonies were fighting for independence from Britain, Vermont declared its independence from New York. Now, nearly 250 years later, Marine veteran Jon Pierowicz is pursuing another effort to split NY through his nonprofit “Upstate Independence.”

Okinawa, Japan, July 27, 2007: Lance Cpl. Joshua Rodriguez, 22, from Fredricksburg, Va., an administrative clerk with Marine Air Control Group 18, pulls himself across a rope bridge Friday at Commando Crawl.

While serving in the Philippines during World War II, U.S. Army Air Corps Pfc. Glenn Harris was captured, forced to walk in the Bataan Death March and held as a prisoner at a camp more than 7,000 miles away from his home on the Central Coast. He would never return to California — until now.

The cruiser USS Bunker Hill — one of the first American warships to attack Iraq with cruise missiles during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 — was decommissioned Friday at Naval Base San Diego, ending 37 years of service.

Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 6, 2010: Aviano High School senior Melanie Vasquez requests permission to use the drill pad during the Regulation Drill competition at Kaiserslautern High School.

Somewhere in South Korea, April 1958: Using his jeep’s side mirror and his helmet as a basin, Spc. Harry W. Wise shaves after a night of guard duty.

Eric Lehman, whose 2014 book “Homegrown Terror” is about Arnold’s invasion, said Fort Nonsense had dubious military value, partly because its construction wasn’t funded.

There were more government shutdowns during the Reagan years than under all the presidents since then, combined.

As U.S. Navy ships made their way through the Pacific Ocean during WWII, naval personnel used daily logbooks to record vital weather and climate data at a time when such observations dwindled worldwide. Now, researchers and citizen-scientists have “rescued” over 630,000 records from the era.