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Jewish troops who died in World War II finally receive Star of David headstones
This week, seven more fallen Jewish-American soldiers from WWII will have new Star of David markers installed at their graves.
By Davis Winkie
How one organization is working to correct cases of Jewish WWII soldiers mistakenly buried under Latin Cross headstones
“It is very important for us for a soldier who lived and died as an American be acknowledged for posterity as an American. It is also equally important for us that a soldier who lived and died as a Jew, be recognized as a Jew.”
By Dylan Gresik
German city to honor WWII airmen executed after surviving B-17 crash
Joseph Prokop, then 22, survived the downing of the bomber only to be captured by the Germans and summarily executed after a Gestapo officer learned one of his crewmates was Jewish.
By David Singleton, The (Scranton, Pa.) Times-Tribune via the AP
How the US military embraced America’s religious diversity
In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, the chaplaincy was a majority white and fully Christian organization. That changed.
By Ronit Y. Stahl, University of California, Berkeley
Green Beret legend, Holocaust survivor, Vietnam veteran and retired two-star dies
Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow was a survivor of the Holocaust, veteran of the Vietnam War, and one of the top Army officers in Berlin during the Cold War.
By Kyle Rempfer