Stripes Today
Memories with Stars and Stripes
A collection of reader submitted Memories with Stars and Stripes Pacific.
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15 years after Fukushima nuclear disaster, recovery continues in a changed landscape
Nature is reclaiming abandoned buildings in the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an area that appears frozen in time 15 years after disaster struck.
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‘Going in their honor’: Vietnam veterans to visit key battle sites for first time since war’s end
Veterans returning to Vietnam to tour battle sites in Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City.
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Veteran barber closes decades-old shop on US military base in downtown Tokyo
The old scissors remain straight and sharp in the hands of 84-year-old retired barber Harumi Aketo.
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Memorial honors WWII soldiers torpedoed in Hawaii waters in 1942
The Hawaii Army National Guard dedicated a new memorial this week honoring the 26 guardsmen aboard a transport boat sunk by a Japanese torpedo while near Maui in January 1942.
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For some military families, adoption forges bonds that span borders and generations
American military families adopt at a lower rate than the overall U.S. population, but those that do find military life — particularly overseas — can shape family experiences in distinctive ways.
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A bullet creased a Navy heart at Pearl Harbor and sparked a WWII love story
During their nearly 50 years together, Alice Darrow was fond of saying she filled the bullet-sized hole in her Navy husband’s heart from the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor with love.