Vets Recall Epic Battle; 109th Played Pivotal Role in Battle of ...
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Retired Brig. Gen. John E. McDonald glances back across six decades and recalls a prominent point in the history of Scranton&#39;s 109th Infantry Regiment.
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There was a time when the trauma unit at the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Willowbrook was state of the art - if you wanted to train to become a war medic.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- On the second day of the ground battle for this insurgent stronghold, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle commanded by Lieutenant Eric Gregory whisked its crew of infantrymen to a house where they were to set up an observation post.
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For the 10th consecutive year, tickets for the Army-Navy game have sold out, and for good reason. Countless aspects of this 105-year-old rivalry command respect, from the thrill-inducing pageantry of the pregame
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Thousands of people are gathering to pay tribute to the half-million soldiers who died 90 years ago on Flanders Fields, one of World War I's bloodiest battles.
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Just before Christmas, an Army captain named Brian Freeman cornered Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) at a Baghdad helicopter landing zone. The war was going badly, he told them. Troops were stretched so thin they were doing tasks they never dreamed of, let alone...
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not from books, movies or a TV miniseries, but because he was there. He remembers Dec. 16, 1944, when the field phone rang in the command
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After the second funeral for multiple casualties in a month, Army Sgt. John McCary logged on to a computer shared by 200 troops in Iraq's Al Anbar province. There wasn't much time. There never was, to pause, reflect, find meaning. Even after the deaths of friends. McCary, an interrogator, was busy...
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Keith Greene remembers the sandstorms, the swirling red clouds that left grit in everything. Joe Goellner recounts building schools for Iraqi children. Raffi Bahadarian describes fighting to help protect his comrades.
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From their positions across Iraq's dangerous and insurgent-dominated Anbar province, more than 20,000 Marines quickly and quietly marked Thanksgiving on Thursday &#151; then got back to work.
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Â· More than 150 injured in coordinated attacks Â· One of deadliest days since US troop surge
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The National Endowment for the Arts earlier this year asked U.S. soldiers and their families to write down what they saw, heard and felt during the Iraq war for a program called "Operation Homecoming." The reflections compiled to date offer a poignant glimpse into soldiers' lives and how they are affected by war.
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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Veterans of the Battle of Arnhem re-enact the famous air drop to mark its 60th anniversary.
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WASHINGTON -- The heavy lifting has been done. The long plane rides to exotic lands and the tough nights on the road playing in front of raucous crowds are a memory for now.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Feb. 20--HOOD CANAL -- Like knights heading into battle, two dozen people in rubber-coated diving suits and 40-pound air tanks clanked down the gravel beach.
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I want to thank Lynne Joiner [letters, Nov. 29] for taking the time to help wounded soldiers. My brother fought for a year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne, and my cousin, a Navy pilot, flew in both Afghanistan and Iraq.