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More than 1,000 marines attendance, they faced off in a game known as the mosquito bowl. months later, some of them would fight in one of the hugest battles in okinawa. this latest story remarkably explained and told in a book called "the mosquito bowl" by buzz bizzinger, a pulitzer prize reporter whose previous book was called "friday night lights." buzz, your book about "friday night lights" seemingly about football, but its about a lot more than just a football game. explain. >> well, thats r...

Columnist Bill White gives his impressions of visiting Normandy, France in August where he walked on the beaches where Allied troops came ashore to begin the liberation of Europe on June 6, 1944.

70th normandy commemorations in france in 2014, i have a very strong memory of speaking to her a few weeks later and asking her what she made of the ceremony on the beach. it was this grand performance commemorating and marking the d-day landings. and bringing in a way she hadnt really seen the commemoration. shed almost been transferred back to that period in 1945 or 1944 when the d-day landings happened. she had been thinking of her friends that had landed on the beach on that day. and whether...

Borders railway. i was enjoying the recollections of times spent in scotland. now, that would have been special on any day. but it was also the day the queen became our longest reigning monarch allowing me to observe closely how quietly reflective she was about that historic milestone made it so much more so. it was one of the great privileges of my life. what was obvious there and on every was the queens genuine love of scotland. her first was here in scotland when she opened the aberdeen sailo...

Is. we have to ask the question. did he get cash? did he get favors for sharing that information? we do not know. you are talking about history, alicia, think of dwight eisenhower as a general. 1944. planning the day. whose success depended on getting the germans by surprise. where the allies would land. and what the plan of attack was. if someone had left out one piece of paper, that couldve doomed ten tons of thousands of allied soldiers and soldiers to their deaths. the next year, harry truma...

>> im confident that when people can vote, and express their desires, the opportunities that they see, work on the problems that they have in thur communities, were going to be a much better state and a better country for it. but when you lock up people or lock them outside of this democracy, as youve done in texas, 7 million who were eligible to vote did not cast a ballot in 2020 right here in texas. not because theyre lazy, not for any lack of love of democracy. but because greg abbott and the...

People, i could not be back in it now at my age. that dont mean i can give up on the >> 1944 he found a way to enlist at just 16 years old joining the navy all these years later he says it is enough to see this to remember why he served. >> you do what you are told the best you can do because i was born free and im going to die free or die defending. spirit of multi medias journals, great job thank you for bringing that story, so important. we thank all of our veterans and everyone who has ever ...

20 have been exposed on a section of the river. and this isnt just reminder of a bygone era, theres ammunition and explosives on board these ships and has locals worried. >> translator: we certainly have about 10,000 kilograms of explosive devices here. you can anticipate what will happen if one does. >> reporter: these vessels were among the hundreds deliberately run aground in 1944 by nazi germanys retreating black sea fleet. area of 00 meters for ships to pass through, thats nearly half of th...

You know, how many people are leaving florida to come to new york? hardly anyone! hardly anyone! the opposite, tens and tens of thousands of new yorkers are leaving new york because things are out of control in this city and this date. crime is out of control. anti-semitism is at levels never seen before. at this event when she talks about never forgetting, she is busy attacking the governor of florida who has done an amazing job while she has failed -- how pathetic. she owes everyone an apology...

Taiwan and so it is difficult to know at the moment who is letting this come out and if she is indeed landing, we are going to have to take a deep breath and wait and see. we have covered the chinese threat in your eyes, but what about the abilities of taiwan to defend itself on its own and secondly, if it did draw in an international response, what would that look like? attacking across water — what would that look like? attacking across water is _ what would that look like? attacking across ...