Memorial Day
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Wars and Modern Memory May 27, 2024
A few weeks ago, my family found a pair of homemade football tickets in a box of my great-grandfather’s belongings, inviting the friends of Jim and Frances Ferguson to attend a watch party of the November 30, 1963, Army–Navy football game. I thought ...
The National D-Day Memorial May 27, 2024
Since the late nineteenth century, Americans at the end of May have honored and mourned all the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S. military. Although Memorial Day is often heralded as the start of summer (officially the last Monday...
Remembering Leo Thorsness May 29, 2023
Power Line observes its twenty-first anniversary this Memorial Day weekend. I am taking the liberty of looking back by pulling out three of my favorite posts of the past twenty-one years. This is the third.Stephen Spender wrote in his most famous poe...
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier May 28, 2019
The story of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier begins on the battlefields of Europe as the guns fell silent on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The American Expeditionary Forces had proved decisive in World War I, th...
Brothers Who Were Lost Together at Pearl Harbor May 27, 2019
On Dec. 7, 1941, the battleship Arizona took the brunt of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Decimated by a horrific explosion, the ship lost 1,177 men in seconds. Among the dead were 63 brothers who had chosen to serve together.In a world...
The Boys Who Didn't Come Back May 27, 2019
For most of us, it's an unfathomable trauma: A son's military unit has come under attack, and in the hours or days that follow parents wait for news, to learn whether he has lived or died. Impossible, then, to imagine such pain and anxiety multiplied...
