Nineteen years after the attacks of 9/11, some American veterans of the war in Afghanistan wrestle with the idea that the pull-out of U.S. troops from the country was born out of a deal struck with the very enemy more than 2,400 of their brothers and sisters died fighting.

Biram Senghor, 82, is among the last living sons of hundreds of West African soldiers who fought to liberate France in World War II but were killed upon their return one morning at the order of French commanders.

Four congressional lawmakers are pushing to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a Black Army medic who was wounded on D-Day and spent the next 30 hours treating injured men on the beach until he finally collapsed from his own wounds.

Starting Wednesday, the public will be allowed into Arlington National Cemetery to visit gravesites every day from 8 a.m. to noon, but some points of interest inside the cemetery will remain closed.

It was the summer of 1970, and as Tomas Sandoval fought in a war he'd been drafted into, activists back home protested a system that sent so many Mexican Americans like him to fight in Vietnam.

In the summer of 1945, Lt. John K. Bremyer, 25, was to carry a flag from Washington and travel in a hurry to legendary Fleet Adm. William F. "Bull" Halsey, then on the battleship USS Missouri, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

ANALYSIS

The legacy of World War II is still rippling through world events and influencing history. Even though the war ended 75 years ago, the world is still defined in many ways by what they accomplished.

Over the course of nine years, the Civilian Conservation Corps changed the face of outdoor recreation in this country, ushering in the era of easy-access “car-camping” that exploded after World War II and continues today.

In the war in the Pacific, Jack DeTour used to fly B-25 bombers on missions in which his aircraft would sometimes come back with extra parts ... from the Japanese ships he was attacking at a very low level.

A few leads have turned up in the search for “Gimpy Joe,” a soldier from Pittsburgh who scratched his name into the stone walls of a cave in the Netherlands in 1944, but nothing concrete has surfaced.

Pilot Ralph Cheli buzzed his B-25 Mitchell just above the rainforest treetops of New Guinea, followed by several dozen other bombers from his squadron known as the Green Dragons. The mission: bomb and strafe an airfield crammed with hundreds of Japanese planes.

Fred David was just 18 when he stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 5, 1944. David is one of 115 Greentown, Indiana, veterans who now have a banner prominently displayed on nearly every light pole as part of the town's Hometown Hero project.

The Pentagon is poised to recommend that the Medal of Honor be posthumously awarded to Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, who suffered fatal burns while repeatedly bursting into a burning vehicle in Iraq to save the lives of fellow soldiers.

Due to the pandemic, the traditional birthday gathering for Lawrence Brooks can't take place this year. But the National WWII Museum is hoping that people will send Brooks a card to commemorate his 111th birthday.

On Friday, Sept. 11, Wreaths Across America calls for every American to stand outside and wave a flag for one minute at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m.and 10:03 a.m.

On August 29, 1970, thousands of demonstrators marched through East Los Angeles for the National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War. What was intended to be a quiet rally "ended in violence and tragedy," Time Magazine reported.

A cavalcade of World War II flying history will land at Wheeler Army Airfield from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday in preparation for three aerial parade flyovers commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, officials said.

It’s been frustrating for some of the pilots and warbird owners who came a long way and with great difficulty to Hawaii to honor veterans with flights and a series of group flyovers commemorating Japan’s surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.

In 2005, a man showed up at the home of Jason Dunham's parents with an ammo box and a request. Could he place it on the hill overlooking the house, and mark the box as a geocache site? Geocachers from around the world are still able to discover the box and learn some of the Medal of Honor recipient's story.

Organizers of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II event in Hawaii said Friday night they made the “extremely difficult decision” to limit attendance at the Sept. 2 ceremony to World War II veterans who live in the state.

Aerial parade flyovers with up to 14 vintage warbirds are scheduled around Oahu Aug. 29 and 30 and Sept. 2 — the day 75 years ago that Japan signed an unconditional surrender aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

The massive Mediterranean style hotel survived the Great Depression and, later, just barely staved off destruction. It went from luxury hotel to military hospital, government office to derelict eyesore.

The English colonists who settled North Carolina's so-called Lost Colony before disappearing from history simply went to live with their native friends — the Croatoans of Hatteras, according to a new book.

VJ Day is officially remembered in the United States on Sept. 2, when documents were officially signed, but it’s also remembered on August 15, the day when Japan’s surrender to the Allies was announced to the world.

Walter W. Waters called the mass protest “a safety valve for dissatisfaction.” He didn’t want revolution or anarchy, but he and millions of other Americans were desperate.

The actions of Henry “Red” Erwin, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for a heroic act during World War II, and the love story with his wife are at the heart of a new book, "Beyond Valor."

Luzerne County, Pa., Judge Richard M. Hughes III said his late father didn’t talk much about his Army service in World War II. But he wrote extensively about his combat journey through Europe. It just took the family more than 75 years to find the writings.

The 222-year-old USS Constitution in Boston, the United States Navy’s oldest commissioned ship, reopened last week to much fanfare. Roughly 1,000 people visit the ship during its reopening weekend

Complaints, advice, congratulations, introductions, pleas, job requests and military reports poured into Abraham Lincoln's mailbox before and during his presidency.

As the U.S. marks National Purple Heart Day on Friday, Stars and Stripes looks at the life and career of retired Army Col. Richard "Dick" Williams, 97, who was wounded during the Korean War Battle of Chipyong-ni in 1951.

With a Japanese helicopter destroyer, the battleship Missouri and USS Arizona Memorial behind them, officials announced Wednesday that 52 World War II veterans plan to attend events on Oahu marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.

It’s been 75 years since the U.S. Army Air Force dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here's a look back at the first and only wartime use of atomic weapons.

The 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II Commemoration, which includes events in Washington, D.C., and Honolulu, Hawaii, will continue with adjustments and safety precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Fourteen vintage warbirds, including a polished aluminum 1944 B-25 bomber, are headed to Hawaii courtesy of a U.S. Navy lift on the amphibious assault ship USS Essex for aerial flyovers commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.

On that clear, sunny morning, 7-year-old Howard Kakita stood on the roof of his grandparents’ bathhouse excitedly watching the vapor trails of an approaching B-29. The date was August 6, 1945. The city was Hiroshima, Japan.

Bert Shepard’s major league debut in 1945 — 75 years ago this month — capped a remarkable tale of perseverance that began when his P-38 Lightning fighter was shot down in Germany on May 21, 1944.

Between 1940 and 1943, over 90,000 Jews died in the Warsaw Ghetto of starvation and disease. But that number could have been much higher if not for the efforts of doctors and ghetto officials who managed to stop a typhus epidemic in its tracks.

The 2005 obituary for William F. Ault of Canton, Ohio, noted he was one of the few who survived one of the deadliest losses of life in U.S. Naval history.

The Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Museum will be a “proud recipient” of one of the first Lockheed F-117 Nighthawks released for public display at a non-military institution, the museum said.

Sen. Tim Kaine on Tuesday urged other lawmakers not to cave to President Donald Trump’s demands to remove a measure from the annual defense authorization bill that would strip the Confederate names from 10 Army posts.

For half a century, a U.S. Military Academy dormitory has borne the name of Robert E. Lee, the West Point graduate who led the academy as superintendent for three years and later waged war against former comrades as a Confederate commander during the Civil War. That could change.

Daniel Smith is a member of an almost vanished demographic: The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being.

Inventor Robert Condit speculated that Venus was run by naked, multi-limbed inhabitants — who would eventually become business partners with Earthlings.

For decades, hundreds of thousands of people descended on the now-closed air base in Weymouth, Rockland and Abington for weekend air shows, which featured stunt pilots, fighting jets and sometimes even the Blue Angels, the Navy's precision flying team, from around the country.

The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is approaching next month and Medal of Honor recipient Hershel "Woody" Williams remembers where he was when he got the news the conflict was over.

A sword that was presented to a Massachusetts soldier in 1863, lost to the enemy and then found in a foot locker in the Confederate soldier's family, now resides in the Clinton Historical Society archives.

Live fire weapons demonstrations will be part of a day’s worth of World War II reenactments, held aboard the USS LST 393 Veterans Museum, the historic warship docked in downtown Muskegon, on Saturday.

Leonard “Max” Schroeder would have been 102 this month. The Linthicum, Md., native died at age 90 — remarkable, given the role he played in World War II. Because on D-Day, 1944, Capt. Schroeder became the first American soldier to hit the sand at Normandy.

Bart “Doc” Fabian received his second Silver Star more than five decades after he earned it in a fierce battle at an enemy base camp in Vietnam during which he saved the lives of 10 other soldiers.

It took 67 years, but Korean War veteran Donald L. Roy received the Bronze Star medal last week that he was awarded decades ago for service as an Army medic.

Global events throughout history have often had negative consequences for children. In July 1915, however, events in northern Europe had many children in the United States, celebrating.

It was June 22, 1864. The small Massachusetts regiment was surrounded and overwhelmed. First Lt. William J. Coulter, one of four officers in the unit, relinquished his sword, the ultimate act of defeat on the field of battle.

Plans to build the first phase of an $11 million mounted warfare museum at Fort Hood, Texas, have been approved after nearly 10 years of planning, fundraising and designing, the foundation spearheading the facility announced.

The measure would approve benefits for Vietnam War veterans suffering form bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, hypertension and Parkinson’s-like symptoms – conditions thought to be caused by exposure to the chemical herbicide Agent Orange.

The 75th anniversary of Trinity is worth marking, if not celebrating, on Thursday both as a scientific achievement and as a signpost of the challenge that humankind has faced ever since to manage its own capacity to self-destruct.

Nearly a century after a brutal race massacre left as many as 300 black people dead, this city began to dig Monday for suspected mass graves from the violence.

The question wasn’t who wanted United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dead. The question was, who didn’t?

A new funding bill would prevent military construction funds from being used for projects on installations named after Confederate generals from the Civil War.

The Fourth of July holds a special place in local resident Jim Picard's heart for two reasons. He spent 26 years in the Air Force living overseas, stationed in Sicily and England. And Independence Day is his birthday.

A House committee on Wednesday approved a measure in the annual defense funding bill that would ban the display of Confederate flags on all Defense Department property.

More people will be allowed to attend funerals at Arlington National Cemetery starting Monday as the site moves to the next step of its phased reopening.

Tyler Stalter looked at the sonar map of the ocean floor off Pacific Beach and saw an unusual rectangular, dark spot. Then, diving to the spot, he approached a wreck with a flashlight in hand. He was expecting a barge, but why would a barge have a rubber tire on a metal rim?

By all accounts, Frederick Douglass, the great orator and abolitionist, was not pleased with the Emancipation Memorial, which depicted Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation while towering over a kneeling black man who had broken his chains.

GALLERY

The race is on to identify remains of as many service members as possible from the incident, in which a C-124 Globemaster slammed into a mountain during a flight from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage.

Built in 1841, the Olde Towne Portsmouth house has played support roles during wartime. Military royalty has been married in its foyer.

The Confederate flag is a symbol that tourists are used to seeing in Gettysburg, Pa. They can buy Confederate bath mats and bikinis in town gift shops, or order one of eight burgers named after Confederate generals at a local bar. And across Gettysburg National Military Park, about two dozen of the more than 1,300 monuments are dedicated to the Confederacy and its soldiers.

Marvin Strombo, a United States Marine who as a young man on war-torn islands of the Pacific saw humanity at its worst and journeyed to Japan at age 93 to display it at its best, died Tuesday night.

The Korean War doesn’t garner the same attention as World War II, which preceded it, or the Vietnam War, which followed. But it should be remembered as a victory, said 90-year-old Air Force veteran Paul Cunningham.

Sometime on Dec. 17, 1944, a plane flown by U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Elwood Lawson of Escondido was struck by enemy anti-aircraft fire in the skies over the Italian coastal city of La Spezia and it crashed into the Ligurian Sea.

When it comes to Confederate markers, you’re unlikely to find a place with as many such examples than in Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg National Military Park.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

The Korean War is often called the “Forgotten War” in the U.S. because the stalemated conflict was overshadowed between World War II and Vietnam, but its legacy looms large over the divided peninsula. In a special report, Stars and Stripes marks the 70th anniversary of the conflict, which began on June 25, 1950.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

Hannah Kim has met 1,200 Korean War heroes and visited memorials in all 50 states as well as those in U.S. territories and foreign countries that participated in the conflict.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

More than five million Americans served in the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953; more than two million of them are still alive. Here are some of their memories.

KOREAN WAR AT 70

The possibility of dying from friendly fire was a worry for Franklin Chang, one of a small group of Chinese American Marines who fought in the Korean War.

The only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor had it taken away more than a century ago just before she died, then posthumously restored by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Dr. Mary Walker's story is now on exhibit at a heritage center in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Rudy Maiorana was running down a hillside trying to flee a wave of oncoming Chinese soldiers. Through the confusion, terror, smoke and explosions, he heard a voice cry out: "I need help. I can't see." Every day since that November 1950 attack on the Korean peninsula, Mairorana says he thinks of that American GI who cried out.

Richard Downes was 3 years old when his father, Air Force Lt. Hal Downes, went missing in action in January 1952. "When you just don't know, you grow up with that void that is never filled until you learn what happened," Downes said.

As far as is known, 14 U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps personnel from Walla Walla County died in the Korean War. But as yet there isn't a local memorial for these warriors.

“Today’s cancellation is based on the uncertainty if the state of Ohio will permit a large gathering event due to safety concerns and if military aircraft will be able to participate,” the show said in a release.

Portraits of former House speakers who served in the Confederacy will no longer hang in the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday.

PT-59, which was the boat then future president John F. Kennedy commanded after PT-109, sank 45 years ago in Manhattan's North Cove, an urban wetland off the Harlem River.

The Robert E. Lee statue that soars over Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. was designed to seem untouchable. But now that it might come down, the figure has connected with the community below in surprising ways.

Chandra Mundra had planned to spend an entire week in West Point, N.Y., for his son’s graduation from the U.S. Military Academy. Then the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation.

A process to rename 10 Army posts named in honor of Confederate generals from the Civil War would be established by a new bipartisan House bill introduced Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump said he would not consider the changes.