And our "History of" country today is...

Do you recognize where this is? A clue: That's a photo of what used to be called the Enver Hoxha Mausoleum. If I told you it's in th...

"What a liar" — famously muttered into an open mike.

It's the one thing I've always remembered about Daniel K. Inouye. Dead now, at age 88. Inouye was a World War II hero and Medal of ...

"I'm switching to Polish now, in stores and elsewhere. But I find that I have that American softness to my speech. The Polish melodic inflection is gone too."

"I hear its absence, but I do nothing to force it back. I'm kind of enjoying the reaction. At several points, people think that I a...

"On Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor..."

"... I was working as a reporter for the Hono­lulu Star-Bulletin." After a week of war, I wrote a story directed at Hawaii’s women...

Obama's Poland gaffe — you know, it was a Poland gaffe that lost the election in 1976 for Gerald Ford.

W hat Obama said was "Polish death camps," a terrible misstatement, carelessly referring to the geographic location of the camps ...

"[S]oon the Americans were sending him around to entertain other P.O.W.’s from the back of a truck."

"The problem was, they were so pleased with this arrangement that they kept him until June 1947. He was among the last Germans to be re...

"A carpenter came with a toolbox and said, ‘I’m a carpenter from the underground... Show me the house and I’ll build a hiding place."

Dr. Tina Strobos hid more than 100 Jews from the Nazis — 4 or 5 at a time. She died this week at the age of 91. She learned her values from...

"The liberals who long to return to the Midcentury Moment seem to forget that it was a time of enormous cultural uniformity that stigmatized being unmarried or unchurched or gay."

Observes Michael Barone, explaining "liberal nostalgia" for what he calls "America's Midcentury Moment": The huge me...

Who does Newt Gingrich think he is?

Eisenhower? The last guy to be elected president without having won statewide or national office was Dwight D. Eisenhower... De Gaulle? ... ...

"He liked a cigarette, he liked a bottle of beer - he drank a bottle of beer like any man."

The bear that fought in World War II.

"If we do hear from my great-uncle, I'll be sure to let you know."

"Until then, though, I'll be working under the assumption that the Holocaust happened." AND: Consider this , from Anne Appleba...

Veterans Day, Madison, Wisconsin.

An American woman: The Korean war veteran: The Young Marines : The Patriot Guard Riders : After taking these pictures, I go to my usual café...

WAC Life.

Both my parents served in the Army in WWII, and one of my personal treasures is War Department Pamphlet 35-3 May 1945: "WAC Life."...

"I didn't feel guilty because I didn't do anything wrong."

Fred Korematsu died this week, but his name is permanently enshrined in constitutional law. He was one of the hardy souls who resist govern...

D-Day and today.

The lead editorial in today's NYT reads: It's tempting to politicize the memory of a day so full of personal and national honor, t...

"You have to understand. There was a war."

The AP reports : Bells tolled from the National Cathedral and swing music from the 1940s rang out at the Mall as veterans of World War II as...