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Yahoo
6 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
‘Wall that Heals' veterans memorial open for viewing
WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) — The Wall That Heals — a replica of Washington, DC's Vietnam Veterans Memorial — is now set up in Warren. A welcome home ceremony was held Thursday evening on the South Lawn of Packard Music Hall, where the wall is set up. Clusters of people walked and stopped along the wall, looking for the names of someone they knew who was killed during the Vietnam War. It will be available for people to view through Sunday. Taps will be played each night at sunset. 'It's an experience that kind of heals the community, heals the veterans who served, their friends and neighbors and family that don't get that opportunity to go and share and remember them the proper way,' said co-chairman Herm Breuer. Friday at 6 p.m., the nurses who served in Vietnam will be honored, then on Saturday at 2 p.m., there will be a Medal of Honor tribute. The closing ceremony is at 1:45 p.m. on Sunday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Toronto Star
10 hours ago
- Toronto Star
Everyone must see this photo — thousands of lives depend on it
Her name is Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil. She's the silhouette of a 5-year-old girl who was recorded in the early hours of Monday morning as she escaped through the flames of Israel's latest slaughter. An air strike destroyed the school in Gaza City where Ward had sheltered with other Palestinian families who had been forced from their homes. Ward survived. Her mother, and all but one of her siblings, did not, according to reports from Gaza. Sometimes it takes an image, or one story, to grab hold, and to shock the world into caring. Alan Kurdi was the 2-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the sandy shores of a Turkish beach in September 2015. The rubber boat carrying his family to Greece capsized, like so many other boats transporting desperately fleeing refugees had before. That image of the little boy's lifeless body brought the plight of the humanitarian crisis to the world. The attention was too late, too little and short-lived. But his death saved lives. South Vietnamese forces follow after terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places, June 8, 1972. Nick Ut AP Kim Phuc was perhaps the most famous image to break through. The 1972 iconic photo of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack, with Phuc in the foreground, became a defining photo of the Vietnam War and helped finally bring an end to the fighting. It too came too late. But her terrible suffering saved lives. Images now are everywhere, for everything, and this saturation means they do not hold the same power as they did a decade ago and certainly not as they did five decades ago. There have been hundreds, if not thousands of photos and videos and testimonials from Gaza, as heartbreaking as this one. Those in power will condemn the atrocity and promise action that never comes. Saying 'it's complicated' has become synonymous with 'look away.' But take a moment and don't look away. Watch this video of Ward — and try to absorb that horror. The footage is on CBC, BBC, CBS and other media outlets that fact-check to the best standards that are possible in a war that Israel has censored. Foreign journalists are barred from entering Gaza and the brave Palestinian journalists who are on the ground have been targeted by Israel and harassed by Hamas. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW On Oct. 25, 2023, Canadian journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad wrote this sentence on X: 'One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.' Beneath was a video of the destruction with the words: 'This is Gaza.' He wrote that before more than 50,000 Palestinians were killed, almost a third of them children. He turned that 'tweet' into a book that is a searing indictment of the West's 'institutional gutlessness.' It's not 'complicated.' And it's too late. But let the image of Ward grab hold and save what lives we still can.
Yahoo
10 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
‘She's very special' East Tennessee veteran continues to serve others
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — More than 60 years ago, Kathleen Van Orsdel joined the US Air Force just as the Vietnam War was heating up. Now she continues to serve in different ways. Van Orsdel is a skilled artisan. She designs and creates three-layered textile works of art: quilts. The veteran is one of three female veterans serving in the East Tennessee Veterans Honor Guard. The unit presided over 300 funerals last year. 'It thrills me that I am able to go and do a final farewell to someone who has served my country. I think that every one of us who goes out realizes that the individual deserves every bit of respect and honor that we as an Honor Guard can give them,' said Van Orsdel. Vietnam veteran helps other vets 'heal' with visits overseas Van Orsdel joined the US Air Force in 1964, at the beginning of the Vietnam War. She was 19 at the time. 'I'm unique, because there are not a lot of women veterans from the Vietnam Era. There are more women in the military today, but back in the 60s, there weren't,' said Van Orsdel. As a former airman and mom, she has a special passion for using her talents to make Quilts of Valor. At an event in White Pine, the recipient was an Iraq War veteran. Kevin Gilliam served in the US Coast Guard, then in the US Army as a member of the 82nd Airborne, where he was deployed to Iraq. Many veterans in the audience were wowed by Kathleen's artistry. 'You happen to have one of the quilts that I made for a veteran and I'm so pleased to be able to present it to you,' said Van Orsdel during the event. 'She's very special, she means a lot to us, everything she's done in the service and after service,' said Gilliam. Van Orsdel and her crew have created hundreds of Quits of Valor, and she doesn't plan on stopping. For Van Orsdel, there is nothing better than making a veteran happy. Veterans Voices: Hear the stories of those who served If you know a Veteran who could be recognized, send Don Dare an email at ddare@ or give him a call at 865-633-6923. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
10 hours ago
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- Yahoo
GOP lawmaker defends Trump tax bill to angry crowds at back-to-back town halls
An Iowa congresswoman touted her support for President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill in back-to-back town halls on Wednesday, even as members of the audience jeered and disrupted her speech. "They were booing when I was saying, you know, 'We're preserving tax cuts,' and I can't believe people would boo tax cuts for themselves," Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "I think there are a number of people who just show up to these town halls who want to disrupt. They didn't care what I had to say. They just want to boo and yell and be angry." And there were a significant number of such people at both her town halls in Elkader and Decorah on Wednesday. Scoop: House Gop Memo Highlights Republican Wins In Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' At both events, Hinson touted her support for Trump and House Republicans' budget reconciliation bill and promoted the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts. Read On The Fox News App Both issues drew largely negative reactions from people there, save for some exceptions. At one point in the first town hall, a woman named Linda stood on behalf of another woman, Nicole, who was in a wheelchair and had "difficulty speaking." Nicole, who relied on federal health and food programs, was concerned about any cuts to those programs making her life more difficult, Linda said. The crowd then cheered as Hinson pledged that Republicans were only reforming those programs, "so that people like you can continue to have access to the treatments and medications you need." The goodwill was short-lived, however, when the next questioner accused Republicans of cutting university funding in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy – despite Hinson pointing out the bill does not change income tax brackets. Mike Johnson, Donald Trump Get 'Big, 'Beautiful' Win As Budget Passes House "It's an absolute crime," the man shouted. The boos grew louder when Hinson accused top universities of "letting men play in girls' sports." People in the crowd could be heard screaming "stop it" and "stop spinning." At her second town hall, the crowd jeered as Hinson emphasized her support for Trump. "The president is, I believe, fighting for you and fighting for me. I'm fighting alongside of him. I think God saved President Trump's life in Butler," Hinson said before briefly pausing as the boos swelled. "I think He saved his life in Butler, Pennsylvania for a reason. I think he is helping us to save this country," she continued. Hinson was still unfazed by the protesters when she spoke with Fox News Digital the next day. "I did exactly what I said I was going to do," Hinson said. "I feel good about what I was able to communicate and correct the record yesterday. And I will not only defend this agenda and answer any questions any day, any time of the week, but I think it is really important that I'm out there on offense, correcting the record." The congresswoman said the disruptions grew so loud that it prompted a Vietnam War veteran to address her after one of the events and tell her, "I couldn't hear over all that, and I think that's a shame because I wanted to hear what you had to say." "That's really the disservice. Again, these people who their only intent is to disrupt, someone like that man who served our country, who wanted to come hear what I had to say, had trouble hearing me," Hinson said. "People there want to be able to have civil discourse and ask the questions and hear my answers."Original article source: GOP lawmaker defends Trump tax bill to angry crowds at back-to-back town halls
Wall Street Journal
12 hours ago
- General
- Wall Street Journal
Protest Isn't What It Used to Be
The campus protests of the late 1960s and early '70s—known in one of my favorite euphemisms as 'student unrest'—were different from those of today. Anger about the Vietnam War was at their core. The stakes were personal. If the war didn't stop, many of the student protesters would themselves have to fight in it. Notice that the protests pretty much dried up once the protesters' butts were no longer on the line. Today's protests have an abstract quality. Most of those wearing kaffiyehs and chanting against 'genocide' in Gaza aren't Palestinians. They are trying to express their hatred of Israel and, by extension, of America. That Hamas slaughtered some 1,200 Jews, many women and children among them, doesn't put them off. There is a vicious yet hollow quality about these protests, which are unapologetic in their antisemitism and defiant in their bias against the West.
