Okinawa

The movie "The First Breath of Tengan Rei" has a very special place in the heart of Japanese actress Erika, 29, who plays the leading role.

Gunnery Sgt. John Cammack’s running out of room on his National Defense Service Medal.

After the shocking news of President Kennedy's assassination swept Okinawa Saturday, people on the island began asking each other in anguish: "Why did the assassin have to kill. the young President?"

One of Stars and Stripes’ own has a role on Army Wives. For the Feb. 15 Spouse Calls, I talked to Julie Negron, creator of the “Jenny The Military Spouse” comic strip -- a regular feature in Stars and Stripes Sunday Scene section -- about “Jenny’s” recent appearances on the Lifetime television drama.

Film star John Wayne and director Ray Kellogg flew back to the U.S. Wednesday after a one-day visit here in search of location sites for a new film to be shot this summer about the Green Berets.

Sixty years after Ernie Pyle’s death, veterans and active servicemembers still spoke with reverence Sunday about a man who turned the “average Joe” American GIs he interviewed into heroes in the eyes of millions back home.