On the last Monday of May, Americans are encouraged to make their way to the many cemeteries in the country and recognize the dead by adorning their graves with flowers or other sentimental markers. The day was chosen in 1971 by the United States congress as a day of mourning for servicemen ...

Hala Rharrit was a U.S. diplomat for 18 years. Her job was to go on Arab television and explain United States policy. She resigned on May 6, saying the president and the secretary of state are actually endangering U.S. national security with their support of Israel. When Anthony Blinken ...

Memorial Day 2024 is just around the corner. The city, Parks Department, local clubs and the Dunkirk Joint Veterans Council have all joined together to make this Memorial Day a special day to honor local Veterans who had paid the ultimate price or those who served and had passed away. Fields ...

It used to be celebrated each year on May 30. Now it’s celebrated on the last Monday in May. It used to be called Decoration Day and was for decorating graves of those who served in the northern armed forces from 1861 to 1865. What is it? It is Memorial Day. And it has expanded well ...

Like the “Charge of the Light Brigade” at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, New York state is charging headlong towards forcing all schools to begin replacing diesel powered buses with electric buses beginning in 2027 with the entire state fleet being all electric by 2035. One only has to ...

Erma Bombeck was the funniest Ohio housewife – ever. Erma grew up in a modest suburb of Dayton, wrote for her school newspaper, and worked at the Dayton Herald as a copygirl. Before she received her English degree from the University of Dayton, one of the Marianist Brothers at the ...