Joe Bolongo was 23 when he landed in Korea as a young Canadian soldier.It was late 1950 and, surrounded by poverty and shantytowns, Bolongo remembers thinking, “What the hell are we doing here?”He got his answer when he returned to South Korea, now an ind

Born in Bloomington, Ill., in 1924, Edward Ambrose White was the son of a civil servant and had one sister. He grew up mostly in Peoria.After graduating from high school in 1942, White enrolled at the University of Illinois. Now 76, he recalled recently h

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ninety-nine humble men, veterans of two wars, were treated to a day of near hero worship Saturday during the seventh Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight to the nation's capital.

My parents, Sidney and Lucy, were members of what has become known as "America's Greatest Generation."They were both born to very poor southwest Louisiana farming families in southwest Louisiana near the junction of St. Landry, Acadia and Evangeline Paris