First World War soldiers' graves rededicated more than 100 years after deaths
The services were held in Ypres following the discovery of the graves of the two soldiers who served with Irish regiments.
Source: northern-scot.co.uk
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There are no literalists in foxholes
A green second lieutenant from Pasadena, California, Paul Fussell was wounded while hunting Germans in the forests of Alsace during the last year of World War II. The shell fragments that “wiped away” most of his platoon punctured his legs and back, forcing him to convalesce while the European theater concluded. Alive and ashamed of it, Fussell became “fascinated and sometimes obsessed” with his wartime experience. Much as novelist and fellow veteran Joseph Heller did, Fussell noticed the echoes of war in the civilian life into which he was honorably discharged. He eventually converted...
Source: washingtonexaminer.com
Artist Connects Revolutionaries on the Anniversaries of Jallawallian Bagh Massacre and Ireland's Partition - Brazil Business Today
Pritika Chowdhry highlights the alliance between Ireland and India through a text she discovered while researching the installation "An Archive of 1919."
Source: einnews.com
Yang Kyoungjong: The Korean Soldier Who Fought for Japan, the Soviets and the Nazis
This is the alleged story of a Korean who fought not only under one or two but three sides of war during the messy times of World War II.
Source: sofrep.com
COLUMN: The Battle of Vimy Ridge: A victory that thrust Canada onto the world stage
On April 12, 1917 Vimy Ridge had just been wrested from the Germans
Source: sootoday.com