Japan's WWII vets, hibakusha give mixed reactions on Abe's plan to visit Pearl Harbor
Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Japan and war veterans gave mixed reactions to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement Monday that he will visit Pearl Harbor, which Japan attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, bringing the United States into WWII. "More than 70 years have ...
Team Trump asks Congress GOP ranks to tamp down Khan hubbub to no avail
U.S. Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members. Trump's criticism of Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, who ...
Obama's Hiroshima visit reveals progress of reconciliation, disagreements over history
When it comes to hibakusha and the victorious Americans, one can expect a portrait of contrasts. But as time heals the wounds of war, the resulting scar tissue has concealed many of the differences of opinion — both about the necessity of the atomic bombings ...
WWII fighter pilot's Japan experience: From foe to family
The long and circuitous life of 92-year-old World War II veteran Jerry Yellin reads like a work of fiction. From his time as a fighter pilot during the war, strafing enemy sites from a P-51 and escorting B-29s over Japan, to watching his half-Japanese granddaughter ...
U.S. leadership hears veterans' concerns about Obama's Hiroshima visit
A close aide to U.S. President Barack Obama met war veterans Thursday amid concerns the president's planned trip to Hiroshima this month could be seen as an apology for the atomic bomb attacks at the end of World War II. Susan Rice, Obama's top foreign ...
One week after a gathering of biker gangs in Texas resulted in nine deaths and 170 arrests after a shootout, thousands of motorcycle riders roared into the nation's capital Sunday to honor military veterans, prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action. Rolling Thunder, an ...
Aging WWII veterans fret about shift away from pacifist principles
Tokuro Inokuma, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, got his first taste of the horrors of war in 1945 when he scrambled to gather up the scattered limbs of his fellow servicemen, blown apart by a U.S. air raid in Japan. He was 16. One ...
Cleanup at nation's war cemetery stirs anger, grief
Elizabeth Belle walked toward the grave of her son carrying a canvas bag full of miniature pumpkins, silk leaves and other decorations for his headstone. Then she noticed the changes. Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where more than 800 Iraq and Afghanistan war ...
