Historians hunt for Purple Heart stories
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Cpl. Robert Frink was captured in Germany during the final months of World War II. He and two comrades were forced to swap uniforms with their Waffen SS captors, lined up and shot in the back of the head.
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News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine.
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By Dave Fairbank, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Sep. 8--The days of U.S. soldiers overseas huddled around radios listening to World Series games or heavyweight championship fights already has become a fleeting memory, thanks to technology advances and consumer interest.
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Amateur historians and academics can take advantage of a wealth of archived data on the web.
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Retired Army Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall wears a hearing aid and speaks haltingly at times. But when asked about a harrowing 1965 battle in South Vietnam's central highlands, his voice resounds with a resolve that leaves little doubt why, today at the White House, he will receive the Medal of Honor,...
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Since so few highly decorated U.S. Army veterans can say they were active in the Hitler Youth in pre-World War II Germany, Dieter Protsch decided he should write a book about his unique experiences.
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The mishandling of Babbage's baggage Column The relaunch of the IT History Society (formerly the Charles Babbage Foundation) exposes a problem which the Web has brought to journalism and historians - stuff is not being preserved. There are people, however, who are trying to build proper records of the past.â¦
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Jim Newman, an Army captain during the Vietnam War, stared at the Bell UH-1 Huey Helicopter. "I left a lot of blood and part of my leg in that Huey," he said. Nearly four decades after escaping death, Newman was among dozens of veterans at a dedication ceremony Wednesday for a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit that pays tribute to the service and sacrifice of the nation's battle-worn men and women.
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Now a Purple Heart recipient, U. S. Army Spc. Jeffrey King, 23, of Crestview Road, who was critically wounded in Iraq last week, is holding his own.
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A few weeks ago, Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe was on PBS&#39; &#39;&#39;Newshour&#39;&#39; explaining why the hundreds of swift boat veterans&#39; allegations against John Kerry&#39;s conduct in Vietnam was unworthy of his attention.
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As some of the leading presidential candidates trooped before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City this week, there was one thing largely missing at the lectern -- veterans of foreign wars.
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The Washington Post\\'s ongoing investigation of the state of medical care and facilities at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the overall military and VA health care systems.
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Background and biographies of this year's recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor.
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By Tom M Miller  Editor, Times-Dispatch:  With others, I was twice privileged to visit Normandy battle sites and the nearby American cemetery holding our special heroes.  Among rows of white crosses two bear gold insignias marking graves of Medal of Honorees.
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Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home.
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A U.S. journalism professor is  seeking to force the Pentagon to release images of coffins  bearing America's war dead arriving at the defense department  mortuary in Delaware, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
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Thousands of people have been following  the fate of a British soldier fighting in the trenches of World  War One on a Web site publishing his letters home exactly 90  years after they were written.