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  • July 2008

    • Europe Seeing Rise in War Memorial Porn

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jul 28, 08 3:34 PM CDT

      Europe Seeing Rise in War Memorial Porn

      (Newser) - Europe’s war memorials are seeing an uptick in obscene acts of desecration, the Telegraph reports, with the most recent involving a couple making a pornographic film at the Vimy Ridge memorial in northern France, which commemorates some of the 60,000 Canadians who died in the First World War. The couple was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay a symbolic fine to Canada. More »

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      France  • Canada  • trial  • pornography  • World War I  • monument

  • May 2008

    • Oldest WWI Veteran, 107, Looks Back

      MyFox Kansas City  |  May 26, 08 4:21 PM CDT

      Oldest WWI Veteran, 107, Looks Back

      (Newser) - Memorial Day observances in Kansas City this weekend had a very special guest: the last surviving American veteran of the Great War. Frank Buckles, 107, who hoodwinked a recruiter to enlist in 1917, was honored today at the World War I Museum, Fox 4 News reports. "I was gung-ho," the onetime ambulance driver told the Kansas City Star yesterday after receiving a VFW medal. More »

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      veterans  • Kansas City  • World War I  • Veterans of Foreign Wars  • centenarians

  • March 2008

    • German Flick Quietly Reclaims the Red Baron as War Hero

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 16, 08 3:40 PM CDT

      German Flick Quietly Reclaims the Red Baron as War Hero

      (Newser) - Films extolling German war heroes aren’t exactly abundant, but upcoming movie The Red Baron shines the spotlight on the noble, softer side of Germany’s most famous fighter pilot. “There are strong voices in Germany still saying we're not allowed to do this,” says the writer/director. “But the film makes a very clear statement against war.” More »

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      movie  • Tom Cruise  • Valkyrie  • hero  • World War I  • German  • German army

  • January 2008

    • Thousands Glued to WWI Blog

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jan 6, 08 5:38 PM CST

      Thousands Glued to WWI Blog

      (Newser) - Does he live, or lose his life to "liquid fire and bombs"? That question is keeping tens of thousands glued to a site that is posting the letters of a World War I soldier in real time, 90 years after they were written. The soldier's grandson, who collected the letters, prefers to leave readers in the dark: "That is the way it would have been at home," he said. More »

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      Internet  • Great Britain  • soldier  • blog  • letters  • World War I

  • December 2007

    • One of Last Remaining US WWI Vets Dies

      Toledo Blade  |  Dec 22, 07 6:13 AM CST

      One of Last Remaining US WWI Vets Dies

      (Newser) - The oldest-known American World War I veteran—one of only three remaining—has died at age 109, the Toledo Blade reports. J. Russell Coffey, who enlisted in the Army a month before the war ended, was never comfortable with that recognition because he never saw combat. He preferred to be remembered for his accomplishments as a student, an athlete and a longtime educator. More »

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      US Army  • nursing homes  • World War I  • oldest man

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