Editor's Note: This editorial, slightly revised, is published annually as a tribute to D-Day. When the United States put its young men ashore on D-Day 81 years ago tomorrow, they were not alone.

D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 102-year-old who is also a star on TikTok, with 1.2 million followers, greets schoolchildren during a visit Monday, June 2, 2025 in Colleville-sur-Mer, to the Normandy ...

Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...

According to 2024 US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, less than half of a percent of the 16.4 million Americans who served in World War II are still living. As direct connections to the war ...

On June 6, 1944, American forces landed at Utah Beach, the westernmost sector of the Normandy invasion. In just 15 seconds, ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. I am the keeper of a love story that began before I was born and now spans 81 years, ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach under heavy fire on D-Day will receive an award for self-sacrifice and public service from the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The last known glider pilot from World War II will be buried in Denver, according to a social media post from The Greatest Generation Foundation, a nonprofit that supports and honors ...

World War II veteran Wilbur "Jack" Myers, a 101-year-old who fought in the U.S. Army's 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, hands a souvenir postcard of himself to Ryan, a young French boy, on Monday, June ...

I am the keeper of a love story that began before I was born and now spans 81 years, two continents, two countries, two languages and four generations. The story began in France, just after the D-Day ...