From the Archives
Nearly 70 years after USS Indianapolis tragedy, survivor tells his tale
Just past midnight July 30, 1945, two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck the USS Indianapolis with almost 1,200 people aboard.
A golf perfectionist's aim: Improvement
So you win nearly $300,000, capture six major tourney championships, score a near miss in capturing pro golf's "Grand Slam" and are named the Professional Golf Association Player of the Year — all in 12 short months.
Stan 'The Man' Musial — A class guy
Stan "The Man" Musial's baseball fame knows no boundaries.
Former POW tells how he survived
Retired Lt. Col. Ben Purcell said he never gave up hope as he passed years in the steamy jungles of Vietnam, a barely-fed prisoner of war who endured despite harsh conditions.
U.S. officials maintain silence on plans for Jenkins
The fate of Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins — a U.S. soldier believed to have defected by walking across the border into North Korea during a 1965 Demilitarized Zone patrol — could go one of several routes, said lawyers and others observing the case.
2nd ID soldiers study basics of South Korean culture
Like many U.S. servicemembers in South Korea, Spc. Jeremy Fox used a creative blend of English, Korean and pointing to direct taxi drivers when he first arrived in South Korea 16 months ago.
Plans unveiled for new park in South Korea to honor U.S. sailor
The television cameras captured the 1956 ceremony in fuzzy black and white: Masses of people — Americans and South Koreans — in their military uniforms or their Sunday best, dedicating a small stone monument on the outskirts of Seoul to an American who had become something of a national hero in South Korea.