Alan Kinder was touched last year when the strangers he encountered during his trip back to Normandy gratefully hugged and kissed him. He had returned to France with other World War II veterans so ...
Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five years in the French Foreign Legion and fought in Africa, faced the Nazis in ...
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — His service in uniform began with a lie. Nearly 90 years later that service was honored with the presentation of the French Legion of Honor, equivalent to the U.S. Medal of Honor ...