Bob CollinsSomeone in Minnesota knows something about a mysterious letter sent in World War II. Step forward!
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War
Some kids appreciate the opportunity they get with a free education; some kids don’t. Two stories in the news today make that point abundantly — and frustratingly — clear. Read more →
There are now seven living recipients of the Medal of Honor as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
President Obama presented the medal to former Army Sgt. Kyle J. White, a Seattle native, today. Read more →
The Northland Veterans Service Committee says it’s raised enough money to build a statue to David Wheat, a Duluth man held for more than seven years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp. Read more →
The kidnapping of girls in Nigeria at the hands of the Boko Haram rebels is finally getting traction in news cycles, thanks primarily to Twitter and social media. This week the United States offered to help find them, almost three weeks after their abduction.
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Since 2008, analogies to Nazis have permeated the American political discourse, pretty much neutering the true historical impact of the systematic extermination of a race.
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Two news stories today involve people who helped people they’ve never met. As a result, a boy in Kabul is going to school and a two-year-old in Pine City is getting a kidney. Read more →
Every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day I post a video similar to this one. Israel comes to a stand still for a couple of minutes. Read more →
After being a secret for decades, Sir Nicholas Winton’s achievement has been out for a few years. He went to Prague in 1938 for a little vacation and ended up saving children from the Holocaust.
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Wisconsin B-17 veterans unite for a last flight. Read more →
Seventy-two years ago today, 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos soldiers were walking and dying on their forced march to a prison camp on the Bataan peninsula, one of the worst atrocities in modern war. Japanese guards shot or bayoneted any man who fell or stopped.
So yesterday, again, Walt Straka of Brainerd was thinking about the men who didn’t make it. One of them, Bryon Veillette of the Brainerd area, was his best friend, the Brainerd Dispatch said: Read more →
An artist collective creates a large images to reach the hearts of distant drone operators. Read more →
You can tell a lot about the type of person who is behind a camera by the images of the people in front of the lens. Read more →
Coincidence? Less than a month since NPR and Pro Publica blew the whistle on the foot-dragging ways of the military to identify the remains of unknown soldiers, the Pentagon is going to bring the process into the 21st century. Read more →
At Xcel Center on Tuesday night, Jamie Jenn thought she was taking part in an intermission contest, guessing what Erik Haula said was the biggest surprise in Minnesota. She guessed it was the size of the Mall of America. She was wrong. Read more →