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MOSES LAKE Thirty-four countries at war. More than 70 million men in arms. Roughly 3% of the world’s population dead by the end. The Second World War only lasted six years, and America’s part in it less than three, but few eras define the world we live in so much, or loom as large in our national consciousness.
“World War II is a topic of endless fascination for people just because it was so complex and so world-changing,” said Dollie Boyd, the director of the Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, which is currently hosting an exhibit dedicated to that conflict. “It's the memories and the experiences of the people who are there at the time.”
The exhibit, titled “Washington Remembers World War II,” is actually one piece in a three-part whole. One part comes from the Washington Secretary of State and focuses on the experiences of Washingtonians from different walks of life as the war touched them. ....
By MELISSA HELLMANN | The Seattle Times | Published: January 14, 2021 (Tribune News Service) A Congressional Gold Medal recipient for his service in World War II, Clayton Pitre was a trailblazer in the U.S. Marines, a master storyteller and a staunch advocate for education. Pitre died Jan. 1 at Harborview Medical Center of complications from a heart condition. He was 96. Born on June 30, 1924, Pitre was raised on a farm in Louisiana, one of seven children, where he spoke Creole French along with English. He left school in the ninth grade because there was a lack of further education opportunities in his area. In 1943, he was one of the first Black men to join the U.S. Marines and trained at the segregated Camp Montford Point in North Carolina. During his service in World War II, Pitre was stationed in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, and later fought in the Battle of Okinawa in Japan. He oversaw the evacuation of the Japanese army in ....