For others, like Benelux employee Patrick Livémont, the sense of historical duty takes a more individual and private form.

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The story of the Los Gatos flight that took off 77 years ago and exploded became a folk song that remains part of the canon of American protest music.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Poland on Wednesday after the two nations reached an agreement over a historical dispute: the exhumation of Polish victims of World War II-era war ...

Darby’s Rangers went missing in action during World War II, he has been accounted for and will be laid to rest.

As the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, 80 years after the Nazis' most notorious death camp ...

President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...

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The remains of an airman from Somerville who was killed when his plane was shot down in Germany during World War II were recently identified and will be returned to Massachusetts for burial ...

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