Long Wait Finally Over: World War II Airman Returns Home
Bonnie McClure was just a young girl when her uncle, Clifford Keeney, an Army Airman fighting in World War II, was shot down in Germany while on a mission in 1944. Keeney was listed as killed in action, and he was buried in a cemetery by enemy forces in Germany. Despite the obstacles, McClure vowed, […]
160 Years Later, Descendants of Army's Sand Creek Massacre Still Wait for Justice
Less than a week after Thanksgiving in 1864, Army Col. John Chivington had a plan for a Native American encampment he gazed down upon. His designs stood in wild opposition to a part of the holiday’s history tied to breaking bread with tribes. Chivington ordered nearly 700 troops to attack the tent camp, where members […]
On Newly-Quiet Stretch of US-Mexico Border, Louisiana Soldiers Sit Around, Watch and Wait
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The soldiers from Louisiana stand around, sit in folding chairs and recline on the beds of Humvees, eyeing the thicket of razor wire that blankets the bank of the Rio Grande and waiting for a potential threat that rarely materializes. When migrants clamber from the slow-moving water and probe for openings […]