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PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As Christmas approaches, readers have asked me how they can donate to charities that are helping Ukrainians. At a time when Russi...

BUSY: Bradford native Roxanne Benjamin is staying busy! She recently directed two episodes of “One of Us Is Lying” season two, which is out now on Pea...

An elderly Ukrainian village woman comes to her garden gate and freezes as she watches a soldier approach. Then she puts her hand to her mouth, and be...

FREE FRIES: With National French Fry Day on Wednesday, July 13, McDonald’s has decided to offer everyone an additional reason to celebrate the day — a...

“Today belongs to all who did not get to take off the uniform,” said Captain Craig Felker, speaker at the World War II Museum in Eldred on Monday and ...

Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough individuals, able to run faster and do more pushups than most people. In toda...

VICTORY AT YORK: Today is the anniversary of the day on which American troops captured York, Ontario — now, present day Toronto — during the War of 18...

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: Today marks 48 years since the war in Vietnam ended. On this day, in 1973, U.S. combat troops were withdrawn from the country after...

In a properly run dictatorship, Dear Leader always wins thunderous electoral victories. You won’t see Vladimir Putin in any late-night cliffhangers. R...

CIVIL WAR ORPHANS IN PA: The Pennsylvania Magazine shared a story on the children who were orphaned in the Civil War in its September/October edition....

Frances Sherman VFW Auxiliary announced it is chairing the “Veterans Kindness Tree” again this year. The number of veterans in nursing homes has decre...

HEROES: Bradford native and Korea Veteran Donald Neal shared this poem in honor of Veterans Day. They are Heroes They left their homes to go to war, T...

No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spi...

On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas. They carried a message for the 250,000 enslaved people of the Confederate stat...

The more we make Memorial Day about remembering our fallen warriors, the better off we are as Americans. And the day after Memorial Day, there are man...

There are thousands of graves the world over for fallen Americans who died on the battlefield of war, graves that have no headstone denoting the ident...

After two decades of war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has abundant justification for withdrawing all U.S. troops by Sept. 11. Yet his decision ...

One of the sad truths of a global pandemic is the fact we can’t gather together as a large group to hear someone speak. One of the unexpected opportun...

In the summer of 1917, from her apartment window on Kennedy Street, a little girl named Virginia Loveland watched the local Pennsylvania National Guar...

DECORATION DAY : Memorial Day was historically known as “Decoration Day.” To honor the deceased, soldiers would decorate graves of their fallen comrad...