Vire River News Today

With Memorial Day past and today being the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I wanted to share the journeys and paths of Gordon E. Rhodes and Harry J. Michael. Both men

During World War II, as one alumnus was building bridges and battling Germans in Europe, his younger brother was in Los Alamos, working on the weapon that would end the war.

Because his hometown paper published his prewar letter home and later wrote about his postwar family reunion, Private Harvey Myers, who died Oct. 26, 2004, left vital clues about the

A St. Landry Parish family is hopeful that a U.S. Army forensics team has discovered the remains of Sgt. Francis Joseph Vidrine, a Grand Prairie native presumably killed and missing for nearly 77 years following an infantry combat mission in France a month after the D-Day invasion. Vidrine, according to military records, was killed July 7, 1944, while with the 30th Army infantry division at Mortain, France. Then 24, he was declared missing in action and later declared dead. However, the body of...