Deported: The Iraq War veterans denied the right to live in the US
DAVID SHERFINSKI and AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how immigrant veterans who fought for the United States are still struggling to secure US citizenship 20 years since the war began…
Forty years after Falklands conflict a “battle for memory” goes on
Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Argentine army veteran Luis Poncetta has travelled twice to the Falkland Islands to pay tribute to comrades who fell in a 74-day conflict with British forces 40 years ago. The divisions, he has found, still linger. Argentina and Britain have long disputed the sovereignty of the British-run group of islands in the […]
Essay: The meaning of Tulsa
CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Colby College, writes about why the US must remember and address unresolved injustices like the race massacre which destroyed the Greenwood community in 1921…
Australia poised for inquiry into veteran suicide, PM says
Canberra, AustraliaReuters Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison looks set to announce a Royal Commission to examine veteran suicides, after a government backbench revolt over delays in establishing an inquiry. Morrison last year said his government would appoint a permanent national commissioner to investigate suicides among current and former military personnel amid rising public anger over […]
US CATHOLICS: HOW THE ‘GREAT WAR’ WAS CONNECTED TO THE CREATION OF AMERICA’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
MICHAEL MCKINLEY, writing for Religion News Service, takes a look at the connections between World War I and the creation of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops…
POSTCARDS: US VETERANS RETURN TO VIETNAM AND WITNESS SOMETHING THEY NEVER IMAGINED
In an article first published on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) website in the US, TOFFANY JOTHEN writes about two Vietnam war veterans who returned to the country recently with Franklin Graham on what was an historic – and life-changing – trip…