The remains of U.S. Army Sgt. Alfred Sidney, who went missing during the Korean War and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp, were laid to rest Thursday in New Hampshire.

For almost all of the roughly 2,500 people attending the ceremony to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, the sights, sounds and terrors of the surprise attack can only be imagined.

William M. Hammond, an official Army historian who challenged the belief among some in the military brass that negative press coverage of the Vietnam War — not flawed policy and rising casualty rates — eroded public support for the conflict, died Nov. 27 at his home in Silver Spring, Md. He was 79.

Keith Tipsword, who was aboard the USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor, is among dozens of Pearl Harbor veterans who have been identified and brought home to be reburied with loved ones.

George C. Herring, a veteran and scholar of U.S. foreign relations who wrote a seminal history of the Vietnam War, crystallizing for generations of readers the reasons the United States entered the conflict and the lessons with which it was left, died Nov. 30 at his home in Lexington, K.Y.

Members of Congress said they were alarmed by a Washington Post investigation that revealed hundreds of retired U.S. military personnel have taken high-paying jobs as contractors and consultants for foreign governments, mostly in countries known for political repression.

Army Pfc. Arthur L. Pierce, 26, was a member of the 803rd Engineer Battalion involved in fighting on the Bataan peninsula in 1942.

USS Arizona sailor Lou Conter lived through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, though his battleship exploded and sank, and is called a hero. He rejects the characterization: “The 2,403 men that died are the heroes.”

The two generals oversaw key U.S. supply routes through Azerbaijan and later negotiated deals there to earn as much as $5,000 a day in retirement.

Nick Bollettieri, the Hall of Fame tennis coach and former Army paratrooper who worked with some of the sport's biggest stars, including Andre Agassi and Monica Seles, and founded an academy that revolutionized the development of young athletes, has died.