Francis Houlihan, small town Iowa grocery man, only five years removed from his high school graduation, found himself 85 ...

It’s been almost 50 years since the Vietnam War ended. But for the field nurses like Mary Stolze who served there, the ...

My favorite part of the Year 1 of the 12-team College Football Playoff era has been the elimination games. Sure, we had elimination games with the four-team for ...

Born in Santa Cruz, I was 5 years old in 1960, living in Olivehurst, north of Sacramento. It was a village settled by Dust ...

Like a straggling army, it has no clear beginning or end ... Pacifism has been almost nonexistent since World War II; so are Oxford Oaths. Some observers regard this as a sign of youth’s ...

Frigid beds This vintage winter photo shows a 1927 electric “blanketless bed” created by Milton Fairchild of Washington, D.C., a contraption that kept a person warm without the inconvenience of covers ...

Recognized by the Blue Jackets in October, 100-year-old Walter Stitt Jr. recently wrote a book about his experiences overseas ...

It's called "Unfaltering Courage: The Diaries of TSgt. Raymond Vachon, a World War II Army Air Corps Flight Engineer and B-24 ...

My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...

Morton Katz of Hartford, a 105-year-old WWII veteran, tells of indelible sights he saw from N. Africa to Italy, France, and ...

Even though age made some of those memories fuzzy, the black and white photos taken by World War II veteran Emerald Knudson ...