Month: March 2018

Meet the 100-year-old survivor who took part in the Bataan Memorial Death March

100-year-old Bataan Death March survivor Col. Ben Skardon, a beloved Clemson University alumnus and professor emeritus, walked between 6.5 and 7 miles in the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 25, 2018. KEN SCAR/CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   By ALI LINAN | Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. (Tribune News Service) | Published: March 25, …

Laatste overlevende (93) Slag in Javazee overleden

Felix Jans (l) (Foto: ANP) DEN HAAG – In Den Haag is Felix Jans, voor zover bekend de laatste Nederlandse overlevende van de Slag in de Javazee (1942), overleden. Dat meldt de website Indisch4ever, die schrijft over voormalig Nederlands-Indië en Indonesië gerelateerde onderwerpen. Bij de slag waarmee de geallieerden hoopten een Japanse invasievloot tegen te …

BEYOND THE ‘BROKEN VETERAN’: A HISTORY OF AMERICA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS EX-SOLDIERS

By Rebecca Burgess January opened with President Donald Trump’s directive to the various Secretaries of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security to formulate a “Joint Action Plan” for supporting veterans in their transition to civilianhood by expanding suicide prevention resources. January ended with the viral video of a California schoolteacher lambasting present, past, and future …