Bob Collins
On this date 45 years ago, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State protesting the war in Vietnam. Four people died. It’s impossible to forget. Read more →
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War
The battle of Berlin ended 70 years ago Saturday with the unconditional surrender of the Nazi garrison in the Reichstag to the Red Army.
Today, Chronos Media, the largest independent film archive in Germany, released this video of life in the city just two months later. Read more →
Three-year-old Evan Tulk and his grandma went to the Minnesota Zoo on Saturday and during a presentation at one of the exhibits, his father, Sgt. Joseph Scott, surprised him
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We can live without Jon Stewart’s comedy when he gives up his gig on The Daily Show later this year. But his astounding grilling of New York Times reporter Judith Miller last night was a reminder that we’ll be hard-pressed to replace his journalistic chops when it comes to interviewing, or — more accurately — his refusal to be a megaphone for newsmakers peddling garbage. Read more →
Abdi Warsame ridiculed ex-Sen. Norm Coleman’s assertion that the large Somali community in the state could lead to “the land of 10,000 terrorists.” Read more →
It’s Vietnam week, the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Read more →
Next week, as the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches on April 30, the country will be flooded with stories, TV shows, and memories of the war, which — at least for a time — made us reluctant to get into another one. Read more →
We’ll find out more later today about the arrests of several people in Minneapolis and San Diego in a continuing investigation of the recruitment of potential terrorists. Read more →
American forces entered the camp on 11 April 1945, bringing an end to the ordeal of 21,000 prisoners being held there by Nazi troops. Read more →
As usual, Steve Hartman nailed it again, telling the story of Carter and Jack Hanson, who literally fell in love with history. Read more →
We are appropriately reminded from time to time to be careful what we put online because the Internet is forever, and people in the future can find our past.
That’s also its strong suit.
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The New York Times today chronicles how the financial industry is ignoring laws protecting military members from losing cars and other possessions to lenders. Read more →
Back in the day when our Vietnam experience made the United States skittish about going to war, this date in 1968 is a big reason why. Read more →
Daniel Jacobs was a long shot at the Detroit Tigers spring training camp this spring. For one thing, the Tigers are stacked. For another, he’s 29 years old. Oh, and he also doesn’t have a leg anymore; he lost it to a roadside bomb in Iraq. Read more →
Another anti-war group has given up. Read more →