Bitter memories darken tale of wartime rescue
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Tears of sadness rolled down George Bizos' cheeks when he read a darker side of his dramatic escape from Greece with seven New Zealand soldiers - how the British destroyer that picked up the men later rammed a ...
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The death of the children may well add to the crescendoing anger many Afghans feel about civilian casualties from American and NATO military operations.
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When Miriam Schmetterling left Poland in  1946, she had no idea if she would ever see her home country  again or meet the people who saved her life during the  Holocaust.
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A remarkable tale of survival and loss in the World Trade Center comes under scrutiny.
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The sight of a sobbing orphan stranded in a landscape of death and disaster moves people deeply.
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It was a day of jubilation &#151; World War II seemed almost over. But before night fell, joy gave way to terror.
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Hiromasa Murakami went to see Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" to find out if an American could tell the Japanese side of a battle that became a symbol of U.S. patriotism, but for Japan was a bitter memory of defeat.
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CAMP ISTIQLAAL, Iraq -- Even when you're a soldier far from home, a few of your buddies have died, and there's a chance you'll never return, Christmas must go on.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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In aftermath of disaster, survivors of school siege recall the nightmare.
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At times, they feared for their lives. They spent many days with blindfolds pressed against their eyes. Their Iraqi captors were convinced they were spies or proselytizers of Catholicism.
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At 87, he's blind and his memory is starting to fade. But mere mention of Christmas Eve 1944 brings Donald Haynes' memory into vivid detail.
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Honoring fallen soldiers who died in combat, battle-scarred veterans of World War II returned Sunday to a desolate valley where they trained six decades ago.
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A new documentary about Abu Ghraib reopens a particularly painful Iraq war wound.
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A hometown waits for the only American G.I. unaccounted for in the war, snatched by insurgents 10 months ago
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Several hundred mainly British World War II veterans gathered to commemorate one of the darkest moments in the British army's long history: the slaughter at Arnhem Bridge 60 years ago.
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Try as you like, it's hard to erase traces of a traumatic past.