Alexandria's slave pen recalls evil commerce

Paul N. Herbert SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

There is a very old three-story brick row house on a busy Alexandria street directly across from a car-rental business, adjacent to one of the ...

Hanks takes viewers to war
5 AM Stacey Plaisance ASSOCIATED PRESS
Actor Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic "wartime experience" when the new film he produced, "Beyond All Boundaries," opens Friday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Continue reading »
Airman returns 65 years later
5 AM Gillian Flaccus ASSOCIATED PRESS
For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found ... Continue reading »
Civil War nurse achieves rank of major
5 AM John Lockwood SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
When the Civil War broke out, many women were anxious to serve, too, although the Army only accepted male soldiers. Continue reading »
W.H. tapes show Kennedy conflicted on Vietnam
5 AM Barry Schweid ASSOCIATED PRESS
Newly released White House tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam's strongman in a situation that appears to mirror President Obama's current quandary in dealing with ... Continue reading »
SGT. SHAFT: Only 1 VA gravesite reserved per vet
4 AM Sgt. Shaft
Dear Sgt. Shaft, I have a question regarding burial for my wife and myself in a Veterans Affairs cemetery when the time should come. Continue reading »