Memorial honors victims of WWII mob
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The heart-wrenching saga of 2nd Lt. Norman J. Rogers Jr. and his eight crewmen is an extraordinary story - but one that has been largely forgotten on both sides of the Atlantic.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - Dusted by falling snow and  surrounded by barbed wire, world leaders mourned the victims of  the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the  liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp at  Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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At the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Lower Manhattan, families of the dead, public officials and visitors assembled to mourn and remember.
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Once again, the city will pause for four moments of silence to mark the attacks that killed more than 2,700 people. Family members will lay flowers where the twin towers fell, and the names of victims will be read.
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The 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge arrives today, bringing a sense of solemn memory for those who were there and a bit of confusion for those who weren&#39;t.
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Holocaust survivors on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the Buchenwald concentration camp's founding by honoring more than 38,000 victims whose identities had previously been unknown.
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SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 16 -- Four victims of a refinery explosion that killed nine were remembered Saturday at memorial services that drew hundreds.
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More than 300 people gathered Friday night to remember a 20-year-old pregnant woman whose body was found in a shallow pit in the backyard of a fellow Marine whom she had accused of rape.
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On a steamy afternoon similar to the day 10 years ago when they hugged their loved ones for the last time, relatives of the 230 people who died in a fireball aboard TWA Flight 800 gathered Monday to dedicate the final piece of a memorial to the victims and the rescuers who raced in vain to the crash site.
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For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, victims' families gathered to mark the anniversary not where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood, but at a nearby gray stone plaza.
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More than five years after their loved ones were killed at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks, relatives of the victims got a chance Friday to tour the construction site of a memorial park being built in their honor.
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The items on display at the Sept. 11 Tribute Center are tiny reminders of life's vibrant moments: rosary beads, wedding photos, a baseball. But there are also somber reminders of death, from a piece of a plane used in the attacks and missing-person fliers posted by desperate family members.
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It's no place to rest in peace: a vacant lot covered with reeds, slabs of concrete and trash. But federal authorities believe the site in a remote section of Queens could be a graveyard for targets of hits ordered by John Gotti and other mobsters more than two decades ago.
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HUNDREDS of people came together on Sunday to lay wreaths and salute those who lost their lives during the two world wars and other conflicts.
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As loved ones recited the names of the dead at ground zero, a wounded but resilient America paused to remember a calamitous day.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - The families of two black teenagers who were abducted and murdered in a 1964 Mississippi race crime set up a memorial to them on Friday, one day after a former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of kidnapping in the case.
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Military jets thundered overhead, and hundreds of people, including veterans and top officials, gathered in Sunday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1944 Slovak uprising against Nazi rule.