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U.S. Army Private First Class Barney Fushimi Hajiro of Hawaii, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on October 19, 1944, near Bruyères and Biffontaine in eastern France.
Hajiro was drafted into the Army two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He performed menial labor as part of an engineering battalion until he volunteered to be part of the Army’s all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The 442nd was mostly made up of second-generation American citizens of Japanese descent from Hawaii and the mainland. The unit was sent to Europe and, in May 1944, fought the Germans in Italy, north of Rome. From there, the 442nd was redeployed to France.
On October 19, 1944, the 442nd was fighting near Bruyères and Biffontaine in eastern France and over the next ten days, Hajiro, a private in Company I, repeatedly distinguished himself in battle. He exposed himself to enemy fire while assisting an Allied attack on October 19, and three days later, he and a comrade ambushed an 18-man enemy patrol. On October 29, during the rescue of the so-called "Lost Battalion", which had been surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains, he single-handedly destroyed two German machine gun emplacements. Afterward, he was shot in the shoulder and wrist in another firefight, leaving his left arm partially paralyzed. He was able to rejoin the 442nd in Monte Carlo but was barred from further combat duty. He was then sent back to the United States to recover.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his action on October 19, 1944. Hajiro initially received a Distinguished Service Cross but was upgraded to the Medal in 2000 after a 1990s review of U.S. military service records. He was the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient for seven months until he died in January 2011 in Waipahu, Hawaii.
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🇺🇸 At 12, he helped save wounded sailors off Guadalcanal.
Months later, he was locked in a Navy brig.
His name was Calvin Graham.
In 1942, the Texas boy lied about his age to join the U.S. Navy. He was assigned to the battleship USS South Dakota.
On the night of November 14–15, Japanese shells tore into the ship off Guadalcanal. Fires spread. Men lay dead and wounded.
Graham was hit in the mouth and jaw. His front teeth were knocked out.
Still, he helped his shipmates.
He later recalled taking belts from the dead to make tourniquets for the living.
He was twelve.
For his actions, he received the Bronze Star. For his wounds, the Purple Heart.
Then his mother revealed his real age.
Back in Texas, Graham spent nearly three months in a Navy brig. He was discharged, stripped of his medals, and denied disability benefits.
Surviving battle had been only the beginning.
In 1978, his honorable discharge was finally approved and his medals restored, with one exception: the Purple Heart.
That medal was returned to his family in 1994.
Calvin had died in 1992.
Look at his face. Behind that uniform was a child who had already carried wounded men through a battle.
Share his story. Remember Calvin Graham.
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🇺🇸 I discovered this story years ago while researching a magazine article.
It has stayed with me ever since.
I have never forgotten Oscar Chappell, the Texan who chose to burn to death to save his shipmates. He wasn’t even 30 years old.
As you read his story, I ask just one thing of you: Please, don’t forget him. Share his story with those around you.
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March 26, 1942. Off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
The American tanker SS Dixie Arrow was carrying more than 86,000 barrels of crude oil when German submarine U-71, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Walter Flachsenberg, attacked from beneath the surface at a range of just 800 meters.
Two torpedoes struck: one amidships, the other between the mast and the funnel!
U-71’s war diary recorded exceptionally powerful explosions. The tanker was soon burning along her entire length, listing heavily to starboard.
The cargo ignited. Burning oil spread across the sea.
At the helm, 29-year-old Chappell was wounded, his head and shoulders covered in blood. His wheelhouse was already burning.
Then he saw seven shipmates trapped on the bow. The wind was driving fire toward them across the deck. Below, burning oil blocked their escape into the water.
Chappell put the helm hard right and held the tanker into the wind. The turn swept the flames away from the trapped men, and back toward his own position.
His shipmates could now jump clear of the burning oil.
Chappell did not survive. Of the tanker’s 33 crewmen, 22 survived the sinking. Eleven died.
Chappell received the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal posthumously. In September 1943, his wife sponsored the launch of a Liberty ship bearing his name: SS Oscar Chappell.
Remember the merchant mariner who stayed at the wheel so others could escape. Remember the heroes.
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The Michigan Harvest Weather Forecast presented by M&W Seeds and GreenStone Farm Credit Services (@GreenStoneFCS) calls for only minimal rainfall, though frosty mornings and a few light showers could briefly slow progress in parts of the state.
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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that waived sweeping US sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia's energy revenues, marking a new low in Washington's ties with war-torn Ukraine ➡️ u.afp.com/SC77
ALT US President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm campaign rally at Dalton Municipal Airport in Dalton, Georgia, on October 16, 2026
ALT Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at the site of a Russian missile strike at an apartment building in Kyiv on October 14, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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What is the point of history if not to help us understand today?
80 years ago, in the early hours of this morning in Europe, ten of Herman Goring's fellow senior Nazis were executed at Nuremberg. Goring committed suicide, escaping the hangman's noose.
The Nuremberg executions set an important precedent that has not been universally upheld: state officials and military leaders can be convicted and executed for war crimes. Waging aggressive war, invading another country, is illegal under international law - a "crime against peace."
Why did Hitler and the Nazis come to power? What lessons can we learn for today?
Here are Goring's own reasons for the rise of Nazism and Hitler, with lessons for today.
1. Fear and Patriotism Silence Opposition
Göring’s view: Leaders can always make people do their bidding by telling them they are under attack.
The lesson today: Beware of leaders who use fear, foreign threats, or manufactured crises to force unity and silence critics.
2. Desperation Destroys Democracies
Göring’s view: Germany’s post-WWI economic collapse and humiliation made the public crave a radical savior.
The lesson today: Extreme economic hardship and social chaos make societies highly vulnerable to authoritarian promises.
3. Mainstream Enablers Provide Legitimacy
Göring’s view: As an aristocrat, Göring personally introduced Hitler to wealthy elites and military leaders who funded and legitimized the Nazi movement.
The lesson today: Radical movements succeed when mainstream political and financial elites tolerate or partner with them for short-term gain.
4. Institutions Can Be Weaponized from Within
Göring’s view: Once inside the government, Göring rapidly took over the police forces, created the Gestapo, and legally dismantled democracy.
The lesson today: Democratic systems are fragile and can easily be destroyed by leaders who use the law to crush political rivals.
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Americans have now spent $135 billion more on gasoline and diesel purchases since March 1 than the same period last year.
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🇺🇸 Seven enemy soldiers. One German mother. Her rule: leave your weapons at the door.
Christmas Eve, 1944. Three American soldiers reach Elisabeth Vincken’s cottage in Germany’s Hürtgen Forest. One is wounded.
She takes them in and starts preparing a meal. Then comes another knock. Four German soldiers.
Her son Fritz later recalls how his mother steps outside. She offers the Germans food and shelter—but insists there will be no shooting.
Both sides surrender their weapons.
Inside, suspicion slowly gives way to a shared meal. A German with medical training examines the wounded American.
For one night, seven soldiers have somewhere safe to sleep.
On Christmas morning, a German helps the Americans find their way back toward their lines. The men shake hands and leave.
More than fifty years later, Fritz reunites with American veteran Ralph Blank. "Your mother saved my life", Blank tells him. (photo)
One woman. Seven soldiers. And a Christmas they never forget.
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Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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🇫🇷 Vichy expelled a Jewish chemist from her laboratory.
She built a secret one, and made explosives for the Resistance.
Her name was France Bloch-Sérazin.
In occupied Paris, the young scientist put her training at the service of the communist Resistance. Inside an apartment on Avenue Debidour, she prepared explosives, grenades and detonators for attacks against the German occupation.
She was also a mother. Her son, Roland, was still a toddler.
On May 16, 1942, French police arrested her. Months of imprisonment and interrogation followed. A German military tribunal sentenced her to death.
Deported to Germany, she was guillotined in Hamburg on February 12, 1943.
Nine days before her 30th birthday.
Before her execution, she wrote farewell letters. Friede Sommer, the women’s prison director, copied and secretly preserved them. After the war, copies reached France’s family.
Her husband, Frédo, never came home either. He was murdered in 1944.
Their little boy survived both parents.
Remember France Bloch-Sérazin, a scientist who used her knowledge to resist, and a mother who never saw her son grow up.
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🎉🇺🇸 100 years today.
World War II veteran Warren Nees was drafted into the U.S. Navy right out of high school in 1945.
He trained as an electrician’s mate, served aboard a destroyer escort based in Key West, then came home and used the GI Bill to earn a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Then came the rest of an extraordinary life:
❤️ 75 years of marriage to his high school sweetheart, Phyllis
👨👩👧👧 3 daughters and a growing family
💡 Decades as an electrical engineer
⛳ Golf
🪿 Goose hunting
🃏 Card games
😄 A famously clever wit
🔧 And a reputation for being able to fix absolutely anything
From Navy sailor to engineer, husband, father, grandfather, outdoorsman, and beloved problem-solver, Warren has packed an extraordinary amount of living into a century.
Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Nees—and thank you for your service!
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BREAKING: 2026 has now seen more days with average gas prices over $4/gal than any year before: 158 days
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Lucian Truscott might be the most underrated American general of WW2. Patton and Bradley got the headlines. Truscott quietly became one of the best combat commanders the US Army had.
He grew up poor in Oklahoma and was teaching in a one-room schoolhouse before he joined the Army in 1917. As a kid he'd swallowed carbolic acid, which left him with a permanently rough, gravelly voice.
In 1942 he was sent to Britain to study the British Commandos. He came back with the idea for an American version. They became the US Army Rangers. A handful of them went along on the Dieppe Raid that August, among the first American soldiers to fight the Germans on the ground in Europe.
Then he took command of the 3rd Infantry Division. He trained his men to march five miles in the first hour and four miles an hour after that, mile after mile. It became known as the "Truscott Trot." In Sicily his division covered ground so fast it reached Palermo ahead of schedule.
In early 1944 the landing at Anzio had stalled, and Allied troops were pinned on the beachhead. Truscott was put in command of VI Corps. He held off fierce German counterattacks, rebuilt morale, and in May led the breakout.
He wanted to cut off the retreating German army. Instead he was ordered to turn toward Rome so it could be taken first. Many of the Germans he could have trapped escaped to fight again.
That August he led the invasion of southern France. His troops tore up the Rhône Valley, covering hundreds of miles in weeks. He finished the war commanding the entire Fifth Army in Italy.
On Memorial Day 1945, he spoke at the American cemetery near Anzio. Witnesses said he turned his back on the crowd and spoke to the graves instead. He told the dead he hoped they'd forgive him for the orders that put them there.
He never cared much about fame. He just kept winning.
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U.S. Army Captain Arlo L. Olson of Toronto, South Dakota was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on October 13, 1943 while serving in the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division near Monte San Nicola, Italy.
On October 13, 1943, and throughout the following two weeks, Captain Olson showed tremendous leadership and courage during the push across the Volturno River in Italy. He repeatedly led his men in attacks against German forces, personally capturing several enemy positions, until he was mortally wounded during a reconnaissance patrol. Captain Olson died on October 28, 1943. He was 25 years old.
Captain Olson is one of nine Eagle Scouts to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
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U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jack James Pendleton of Yakima, Washington was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on October 12, 1944 while serving in Company I, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division.
On October 12, 1944, in Bardenberg, Germany, Staff Sergeant Pendleton voluntarily led his squad in an attack against an enemy machine gun. After being seriously wounded, he continued forward alone, purposely drawing the machine gun's fire so that another squad could advance and destroy the enemy position. He was killed by the intense fire from the machine gun. He was 26 years old.
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U.S. Army Air Corps Colonel Neel Ernest Kearby of Arlington, Texas was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on October 11, 1943 while serving as a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot with the 348th Fighter Group near Wewak, New Guinea.
Colonel Kearby was one of two U.S. fighter pilots to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions while flying the P-47.
One month later, with 12 victories to his credit, Colonel Kearby was transferred to the headquarters of the 5th Air Force Fighter Command. Despite his assignment to administrative duties, Colonel Kearby still wanted to be in combat.
He flew missions whenever he could, and his victory tally continued to rise. For a time, Colonel Kearby was in competition with Richard Bong to be the leading Army ace of the Pacific Theater. Like Colonel Kearby, Major Bong wasn't assigned to a combat unit at the time and flew in addition to his assigned duty of instructor in order to stay in combat.
On March 5, 1944, Colonel Kearby and two other pilots attacked a formation of 15 Japanese aircraft near Wewak. After shooting down one of the aircraft, Kearby himself was shot down. The P-47, his personal aircraft named "Fiery Ginger IV," crashed into the jungle below. Colonel Kearby escaped by parachute, but died of his wounds. He was 32 years old.
Colonel Kearby's remains were found in 1947, but they were left unidentified for two more years. He was buried in Dallas, Texas in July 1949.
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🇫🇷 Look at his young face. He helped the French Resistance save its weapons. Minutes later, he was running for his life across a field.
Mathurin Henrio never reached the other side.
On February 10, 1944, fighters from the Poulmein maquis in Brittany learned that German troops were approaching their hideout.
They had to evacuate their weapons immediately. Mathurin, the son of local farmers, happened to arrive at the farm with an older boy. When the Resistance fighters asked for help loading their weapons, he agreed.
Then the Germans surrounded the farm. Most of the maquisards escaped. Mathurin fled across a nearby field.
A German soldier shot him in the back. The soldiers then killed the wounded boy at close range.
He was a teen.
The following day, his body was placed in Baud’s town hall. Two days after his death, approximately 3,000 people followed him to his grave.
On November 20, 1944, France posthumously named Mathurin Henrio a Companion of the Liberation, one of its highest wartime honors.
He remains the youngest of the 1,038 individual Companions.
Mathurin never had the chance to become an adult. France made certain that his name would survive.
