Korean War veteran said to have died in POW camp to get W.Va. burial in May

During the Battle of Unsan, Cpl Ray Kirby Lilly’s unit held off the attacking Chinese forces so other units could escape the enemy troops that were threatening to overwhelm them. His unit was overrun and cut off, but they kept fighting until they ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender.

Hirosaki Castle in Japan, 2000

Hirosaki, Japan, May 2000: Under cover of night, cherry blossom trees lining the moat surrounding Hirosaki Castle in northern Japan lend a warm glow.

Night patrol in Baghdad, 2008

Baghdad, Iraq, June 15, 2008: Soldiers from Troop A, 1st Battalion, 75th Cavalry Regiment talk to a produce vendor during a night patrol.

‘Master storytellers’: WWII’s Ghost Army receives long-awaited Congressional Gold Medal

Eighty years after they used elaborate trickery to deceive enemy armies about the true size and location of American forces, the surviving members of World War II’s Ghost Army soaked up the appreciation of a nation on Thursday as they received the Congressional Gold Medal.

St. Patrick’s Day Boxing Invitational in Germany, 2018

Vilseck, Germany, March 17, 2018: Calvin Collins, fighting out of Grafenwoehr, lands a jab on Vilseck’s Jonathon Martinez, during the U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria St. Patrick’s Day Boxing Invitational.

Battleship New Jersey to be dry docked for maintenance for the first time in decades

The Battleship New Jersey, the most decorated ship in U.S. Navy history, will leave its home dock in Camden, N.J., Thursday to be dry docked for the first time in over three decades.

Cherry blossoms in bloom in Tokyo, 2006

Tokyo, Japan, April 6, 2006: One-year-old Dallin Wightman gets a close look at the cherry blossoms of Ueno Park.

Processing ‘red gold’ in Afghanistan, 2018

Herat, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2018: A woman inspects red stigmas from a purple crocus flower for impurities in one of three saffron processing centers opened by Rumi Spice, a Chicago-based spice company founded by U.S. Army veterans.

Sculpture park aims to look honestly at slavery, honoring those who endured it

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is the third site created by the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., which is dedicated to taking an unflinching look at the country’s history of slavery, racism and discriminatory policing.

Water sellers in Morocco, 1960

Marrakesh, Morocco, February 1960: Among the prime photographic targets for tourists visiting colorful Marrakesh were these water sellers with tasseled hats, kilt-like garb and strings of brass cups.