Six Sacco boys answered the call to serve during World War II
103830
Only five came back home alive. "There were six Sacco boys in the service, and we all served in World War II at the same time," Tony Sacco said Wednesday.
582164
By Jenny Dolan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jan. 31--Tom Walter of La Crosse knows others like him are out there -- he sees strangers wearing AmeriCorps sweatshirts.   Walter, who spent two years working for YES AmeriCorps in La Crosse, wants to meet other alumni.
722044
When U.S. forces under Gen. George Patton cut across the base of the Brittany peninsula in August 1944, Military Police units were assigned to guard the German prisoners.
255309
Veterans of the bombing of the Sir Galahad in the Falklands War are to a service on its 25th anniversary.
212199
On a recruiting visit to a school in this Chicago suburb, Marine Staff Sgt. Jody Van Doorenmaalen asked a sophomore what popped into his parents' heads when they thought about him joining the Marines.
578700
More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were ordered into internment camps during World War II, but despite their large numbers, few in the territory of Hawaii were forced to leave their homes.
647404
(CP) - For a few stormy days in October 1944, a young Canadian tank sergeant became part of the Bocchini family in an ancient Italian town caught up in the whirlwind of a world war.
501874
Robert Jackson stood with the two dozen other members of Boy Scout Troop 825, raised his right hand in the traditional Boy Scout sign, and took the oath to do his best for God and country.
391499
Whitwell Middle School students hoped to collect 6 million paper clips &#151; one to remember each person killed in the Holocaust. But as word of the school project spread, people all over the world started sending paper clips to the small town in southeast Tennessee, more paper clips than they could have imagined.
163562
Pearl Harbor veteran Andrew Hlusak of Phoenix was fresh off a 12-hour shore leave on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard a fateful call that signaled the entire world was about to change.
144050
CESENA, Italy (CP) - For a few stormy days in October 1944, a young Canadian tank sergeant became part of the Bocchini family in an ancient Italian town caught up in the whirlwind of a world war.
155585
TO THE British, it was a war cemetery. To the villagers of Stahnsdorf in the former East Germany, its annual Remembrance Day service was their window to freedom.
59732
OLYMPIA, Wash. _ Pfc. Anthony J. Sausto liked listening to the band Green Day and watching movies starring Adam Sandler.  The Fort Lewis soldier wanted to have children someday.
525744
CASSINO, Italy (CP) - In the shadows of the Benedictine abbey where German forces held out for long months in the spring of 1944, Canadian war veterans paid tribute Tuesday to the comrades who died in some of the most bitter fighting of the Second World War.
395355
Sixty years of reflection has me recalling the day I chose to enlist in the Canadian Army at the age of 17.
369738
Cartoonist Hector Cantu decided if the stories of Latino soldiers were going to go untold in Ken Burns' upcoming World War II documentary, he'd have Benito tell them.
630405
Childhood friends who enlisted in the Marine Corps together and died together in Iraq were buried side by side.