- (The Daily Star Lebanon) – Although it concluded more than 60 years ago, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial is still a live issue today – in Japan as in the world at large. The deliberations that took place in Tokyo after World War II, which led to 25 guilty verdicts and the execution of seven Japanese, helped shape the international law around war crimes.
Month: April, 2009
- (The Fayetteville Observer) – A Fayetteville man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to forging the name of a veteran to obtain military records, officials said. Paul Edward Moody Sr., 74, pleaded guilty to making and using a false writing, according to a release from U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding.
- (Dothan Eagle) – Hoyt Alexander Canady answered his country’s call more than nine decades ago and took a bullet in the leg fighting the Germans in France during World War I.
These are my links for March 23rd from 07:00 to 17:06:
- - The Department of Veteran’s affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator online database is a wonderful resource for genealogists. With a few keystrokes you can locate graves for all kinds of family members, and get a cemetery map to go with it. When I did a search for the surname Meitzler, I came up with 16 different people. My cousin, Elmore Meitzler, and his wife, Doris, are buried in the Fort Custer National Cemetery in Augusta, Michigan. Elmore fought in WW II in Europe. If I hadn’t known
- Federal Jury Hands Down Guilty Verdict In 13-Year-Old Murder Case (Leesburg Today) – Thirteen years after the body of Jack Watkins was found stuffed in a storage trunk on Loudoun’s western border, a federal jury Monday convicted Nancy Jean Siegel of second degree murder-witness tampering, theft of government benefits, identity theft and fraud offenses.
- (The News & Observer) – On March 15, 1781, at Guilford Courthouse near present-day Greensboro, Lord Charles Cornwallis’s army of British regulars and German mercenaries defeated an American force of Continentals and militia commanded by General Nathanael Greene. “Long, Obstinate, and Bloody” is the first book-length account of battle.
- Reinstatement of the AFGCM (The Base) – The AFGCM is awarded to personnel in an enlisted status for “exemplary conduct” while in the active military service of the United States.
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