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Irish, transgender, and a Civil War hero – remembering Albert Cashier this Memorial Day

Irish Central 28 May 2018

Historians know that transgender soldiers have served with distinction in every major American war, but did you know that one of those trans soldiers was born in Ireland? Since last July, transgender soldiers serving in the U.S armed forces have been unexpectedly targeted by Donald Trump, who tweeted he would no longer accept or allow them to serve in any capacity, despite their record of doing so with distinction....

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Review: 'On War and Writing' a valuable literary critique of historical conflict

The Post and Courier 28 May 2018

Hynes, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University, stands his post at ground level, less interested in relating the sagas of generals and campaigns than in the personal accounts of individual aviators and soldiers ... He defines our collective myth of a war not as a fanciful tale but as the sum of what we have come to accept as truth, often shaped by novels, poetry, film and art....

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Thank goodness for a writer who doesn't treat viewers like idiots! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV

This is Money 28 May 2018

The Handmaid's Tale ... ... Full marks to The Handmaid’s Tale (C4), which followed Disraeli’s dictum by dispensing with dialogue altogether in several long scenes, letting the actors and the action tell the story while a clever soundtrack added layers of foreboding. The Handmaid’s Tale is often praised for its visual majesty, and some of the tableaux this week had an epic, Biblical quality ... ... ....

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HR McMaster on rugby: 'The warrior ethos is what a good team has'

The Guardian 28 May 2018

Like most players McMaster has many such tales, told with requisite laughter ... To McMaster, rugby and soldiering are two sides of a coin perpetually flipped by the Fates ... “I think that these days there has been a tendency to regard soldiers as fragile and traumatised human beings,” he says ... You can draw strength from your experience in combat with fellow soldiers....

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‘Asees’ trailer: Rana Ranbir’s directorial debut is a story of a mother and a son

The Times of India 28 May 2018

The trailer of the same has just hit the internet and it tells the tale of a mother and a son ... As the trailer tale moves forward, there are some scenes that can give you goosebumps ... It would not be wrong to put that the trailer is really intriguing ... ....

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Memorial Day: 150 years of honoring the nation’s fallen military

Orange County Register 28 May 2018

In 1866, Henry Welles of Waterloo, New York, suggested that the town’s shops should close May 5 to commemorate the soldiers who had died during the Civil War.Two years later in Waterloo, Gen ... The declaration said that May 30 would be designated as a day to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers ... After World War I, the holiday was expanded to remember soldiers from all American Wars....

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Clarion Future Soldiers Train at Punxsy Army Reserve Center

Explore Clarion 28 May 2018

(EYT) – Over sixty future soldiers, recruiters, and family members of the Clarion Army Recruiting Company gathered at the Punxsutawney Army Reserve Center on May 19 to get a taste of what the regular army had to offer. Throughout the day, future soldiers trained on the Route Clearance Simulator, a software-based program ......

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Gazette opinion: Putting the memorial in Memorial Day

Billings Gazette 28 May 2018

Thirty five years ago today, The Billings Gazette ran a story about the soldiers from Montana still missing in action from the Vietnam War, which had been through for more than a decade by that point ... But, we also send our heartfelt gratitude to the families of soldiers who were lost. Not only did those soldiers pay the ultimate price, their families paid with the daily pain of loss....

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Search continues for remains of missing soldier lost in Vietnam

Rocky Mount Telegram 28 May 2018

Caroline McCall will never give up the fight that she promised her late mother about having her brother Darrell Johnson’s remains discovered and be given a proper burial for his service as an infantry soldier in U.S ... 1st Class Darrell Johnson is just one of many soldiers throughout American history who died for his country and is being honored for service on the Memorial Day holiday....

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Yarmouk militants dug up graves to find Israelis say officials

The National 28 May 2018

Insurgents excavated graves in a cemetery in a refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus in search of the remains of three Israeli soldiers who have been missing since Israel's invasion of Lebanon 36 years ago, a Syria-based Palestinian official said ... Israel says that on June 11, 1982, five of its soldiers went missing in a battle near the Lebanese village of Sultan Yacoub close to the Syrian border....

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Israelis fire on Gaza militants

Arkansas Online 28 May 2018

The military said a tank fired a shell at the militant position in southern Gaza after Israeli troops detonated an explosive device found along the security fence with Gaza that was meant to harm soldiers patrolling the frontier ... Gaza militants regularly plant explosives near the sensitive frontier, occasionally harming Israeli soldiers ... Raja said the insurgents' aim was to find the remains of the soldiers and transfer them to Israel....

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Montpelier to France

The Jamestown Sun 28 May 2018

Jamestown sent its new soldiers off with all the celebration it could muster ... Anderson and the rest of the new soldiers from Jamestown boarded a train with about 450 other new soldiers from around North Dakota destined for Camp Lewis in Washington state ... While one of the soldiers swept the floor, dust fell through the cracks onto some fresh bread the woman was baking below....

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