WASHINGTON Deceased POWs Now Eligible For Purple Heart An estimated 17,000 deceased U.S. prisoners of war could be awarded Purple Hearts under a new Pentagon policy announced Monday. ...more

October 7, 2008

Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. ...more

September 6, 2008

Here's some good news about our schools for a change. I know you've read enough about failed schools and blundering school boards in recent weeks to get a headache wondering what's next. ...more

August 3, 2008

Remember World War I? That was the war to end all wars. Then came Dec. 7, 1941, and the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. There we sat with World War I weapons, ammunition and military tactics. World War I resources against an enemy with the latest war materials: new carriers, the torpedo, aircraft, and the famous Jap ZERO. ...more

July 21, 2008

We are facing difficult times with gas prices rising nearly every day, the stock market falling precipitously, food prices rising, floods and tornados in the heartland and other disasters. ...more

July 5, 2008

What A Treat! ...more

May 27, 2008

A Bad Comparison Regarding "Bush Remarks Rile Obama" (Nation/World, May 16): Is there anyone left in this country who believes that G.W. Bush has any credibility? If Bush wants to make an analogy, it should not be between Barack Obama and appeasement before World War II, but rather between what he has done to the United States of America and what was done to Germany by its leaders before and during the war. ...more

May 20, 2008

More than six decades after they were forced to leave college, about 450 Japanese-Americans interned during World War II have been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Washington. ...more

May 20, 2008

Atom Bomb Saved Lives The published Rall's, Wright's and al-Qaida's views of the atomic bombing of Japan being a crime are by self-serving people who have not read/studied history or are purposely ignoring it. ...more

May 11, 2008

The modern civil rights movement can be traced to the early 1940s, when the flood of blacks entering the military after the bombing of Pearl Harbor challenged the unacceptable social norms they found in the South. ...more

February 11, 2008