Romanticizing that war has led us to seek another just as “good,” Elizabeth Samet writes.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Remembering an old friend
An interview with a witness to history led to a friendship that endured.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
World War II ‘Code Girls’ recognized on 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
Jane Case of Scarborough and Leona Wright of Cornish were among the Navy cryptologists who helped the Allies win the war and blazed a path for women in the military.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Bob Dole lived a great American life
The tough partisan warrior who also valued compromise with his adversaries showed patriotic values that are missing from today’s politics.
Posted inNation & World, News
A former sailor who is now 101 returns to Pearl Harbor to remember those lost
Pearl Harbor survivors and World War II veterans are gathering in Hawaii this week to remember those killed in the attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Posted inBooks, Food, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: In ‘Plants Go to War,’ readers can observe history through an unusual lens
Ethnobotanist Judith Sumner has written a surprising, plants’-eye view of World War II, chock full of fascinating facts.
Posted inLocal & State
Remains of pilot lost at sea during WWII are buried in Maine
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Ernest N. Vienneau was laid to rest next to his parents at Saint Martin of Tours Cemetery in Millinocket.
Posted inLocal & State
Remains of World War II pilot from Maine finally back home
Ernest Vienneau was killed in 1944 and his body lost at sea. On Saturday he was brought home to Millinocket, where he will be buried on Oct. 9.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
History lesson: A Maine native’s play about a witness to the Holocaust is poised to embark on national tour
‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’ was co-written by Deering High School graduate Clark Young and stars acclaimed actor David Strathairn.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: That smartphone you can’t put down? It all began here
“I started programming computers in the late 1970s, before Windows but after ENIAC. ‘Geniuses at War,’ subtitled ‘Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age,’ by David A. Price, tells the story of amazing men who invested their time and talents and developed a machine to help them decode the codes used by […]
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