
When the message arrived, I was standing in the middle of the checkout line at a Target in Cleveland, holding…

My name is Clare, and at 28, I had become intimately familiar with the corrosive nature of grief and greed….

The smell of roasted corn and smoked meat still lingered on my hands when everything changed. We’d gathered at my…

The darkness in the Brennans’ basement wasn’t just the absence of light: Oliver Brennan had begun to believe she was…

When I arrived at my ex-wife’s house to pick up our daughter, the last thing I expected was to feel…

“The moment I stood up during the family dinner, gently placing a hand on my stomach, I felt both nervous…

October 22nd, 1944. Normandy, France. The rain fell cold and relentless. Nurse Lena Schmidt crouched in the collapsed cellar of…

At 8:44 a.m. on June 15th, 1944, First Lieutenant Frank Tachsky crouched in a Higgins boat 300 yards from Saipan’s…

the sun had barely risen over the Alabama horizon when the convoy rolled through the dusty gates of Camp Aliceville…

He was too small. In June of 1942, a 16-year-old boy standing just 5’5 and weighing only 110 lb walked…

At 1427 on June 14th, 1944, Sergeant Gordon Harris crouched inside his Sherman Firefly at the eastern edge of Lingra’s…

At 9:27 a.m. on December 13th, 1943, Second Lieutenant Philip Adair pulled his Curtis P40N Warhawk into a climbing turn…

At 0647 on June 6th, 1944, Commander Samuel Dei stood in the cramped conning tower of USS Harter, watching three…

June 1942, the Japanese fleets was supposed to dominate, but something went terribly wrong at Midway. When Admiral Yamamoto got…

they were told the Americans would kill them on sight but when these terrified German child soldiers finally surrendered what…

June 1944. The claustrophobic green hell of the Normandy bokeh. An 8 oz strand of simple telephone wire is about…

YouTube / Echoes of War September 1944, above Borneo. Major Richard Ira Bong eased his P-38 Lightning into a shallow…

At 9:17 on the morning of January 22nd, 1943, Second Lieutenant John George crouched in the ruins of a Japanese…

The fluorescent lights in the ICU flickered dimly as Emily Carter sat beside her four-year-old daughter, Lily, whose small chest…

I never planned to return to my parents’ mansion in Stamford, Connecticut, but my eight-year-old daughter, Chloe, begged to see…