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PublishedNovember 1, 2023
American Legion post to host Veterans Day parade, ceremony in Waterville; lunch planned in Winslow
The parade is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at The Elm at 21 College Ave. and proceed south on Main Street to Castonguay Square, next to City Hall, where a short ceremony is planned.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2023
‘He’s home now’: Mainer killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried 82 years later
Ensign Stanley Willis Allen of Bethel was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. His remains were identified 80 years later.
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PublishedMay 21, 2023
Maine Voices: Remembering the power of remembrance in Normandy
My uncle and thousands of others fought for liberty and freedom for all, bedrock principles we take too much for granted in our daily lives.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2022
Handful of Pearl Harbor survivors drawn to Hawaii ‘out of respect’
A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gathered at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing
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PublishedDecember 5, 2022
Remains of soldier who died in WWII POW camp to be reburied in Augusta
Army Pfc. Arthur L. Pierce, 26, of Malden, Mass., was accounted for in July through mitochondrial DNA analysis as well as anthropological analysis and circumstantial evidence.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2022
WWII casualty Sgt. Zelwood Gravlin of Phillips laid to rest
According to a LinkedIn post, as of Nov. 12, 2021, more than 71,000 Americans were still missing from World War II.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2022
Ken Burns on his latest PBS documentary, ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’
Burns: 'The willingness of people to believe the lies of an evil regime and manipulative leaders – demagogues – isn’t something that’s a one-off.'
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2022
Review: Ken Burns’ new documentary spotlights how little the U.S. did to stop the Holocaust
'The U.S. and the Holocaust' shows that Americans fell far short of their ideals in their treatment of Jews threatened with imminent murder in Europe. And the film suggests that the past is not past.
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PublishedJune 6, 2022
Mainer among those expressing joy, sadness at Normandy’s D-Day commemorations
D-Day veteran Charles Shay, a 98-year-old Penobscot Native American from Indian Island, Maine, took part in a sage-burning ceremony near the beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer.
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PublishedMay 28, 2022
Photo of Winthrop Legion’s namesake, discovered in California home, offers historic link to the past
The picture taken at a Memorial Day parade in 1942 may be the last ever photograph of Alfred W. Maxwell Jr. before he was killed in action on Guadalcanal during World War II.
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