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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
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
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
A few dozen graying Pearl Harbor survivors observed a moment of silence Friday in honor of their comrades who perished in the Japanese bombing of Oahu 66 years ago. ...more
December 8, 2007
Eddie Vallina donned a sailor's cap Friday, made his way to the intersection of Rome and Mohawk avenues and held up a sign for commuters: "Remember Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941." ...more
December 8, 2007
AVON PARK — The day Walter Rollf found out Pearl Harbor had been bombed is one of the few times in his life he remembers crying. "When that happened and again when President Roosevelt died, I sat and bawled," Rollf said. Just 10 days before the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, Rollf, a Navy seaman, had been transferred out of Pearl Harbor. "I cried mostly because I wasn't there, and I feel like I should have been," Rollf said, then pausing. "I lost a lot of good buddies that day, and it made me feel worse because I wasn't there with them." Rollf, a fifth-generation military man, would be what many consider lucky, having never been in combat during his years in the military, but he says he wishes things were different. ...more
December 7, 2007
With some fluffy clouds, sunny and warm balmy breezes wafting in off the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean, service personnel and civilians were getting ready to attend church services or trying to sleep late having partied heavily the night before or else were just doing what people usually do on a Sunday morning back in these United States of America. ...more
December 7, 2007
Children carried gas masks to the playground. Military officers commanded civilian courts under martial law. Residents feared enemy troops would parachute into the mountains and then swarm the beaches. ...more
December 7, 2007
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