内容摘要：In the garden, the start of the growing season means the return of dirt under our fingernails, the scent of freshly spread mulch and the first blooming roses. In my neighborhood, and perhaps yours, it also means an audible onslaught of

In the garden, the start of the growing season means the return of dirt under our fingernails, the scent of freshly spread mulch and the first blooming roses. In my neighborhood, and perhaps yours, it also means an audible onslaught of

by race when the 18-year-old was drafted in 1942. Like most Black soldiers, Brown wasn’t assigned a combat role and served in a laundry unit that accompanied the Allied advances through France and the Low Countries and into Nazi Germany.Jack Stowe, who lied about being 15 to join the Navy after

in 1941, said he gets “the sweetest letters” from kids he met on previous trips.“The French people here, they’re so good to us,” the 98-year-old said, on a walk to the water’s edge on Omaha. “They want to talk to us, they want to sit down and they want their kids around us.”“People are not going to let it be forgotten, you know, Omaha, these beaches,” he said. “These stories will go on and on and on.”

that overlooks Omaha, the resting place for nearly 9,400 American war dead, workers and visitors rub sand from the beach onto the white gravestones so the engraved names stand out.Wally King, a sprightly 101-year-old, wiped off excess sand with a weathered hand, resting the other atop the white cross, before saying a few words at the grave of Henry Shurlds Jr. Shurlds flew P-47 Thunderbolt fighters like King and was shot down and killed on Aug. 19, 1944. In the woods where they found his body, the townspeople of Verneuil-sur-Seine, northwest of Paris, erected a stele of Mississippi tulip tree wood in his memory.

Although Shurlds flew in the same 513th Fighter Squadron, King said he never met him. King himself was shot down over Germany and badly burned on his 75th and last mission in mid-April 1945, weeks before

He said pilots tended not to become fast friends, to avoid the pain of loss when they were killed, which was often.More recently, in March, he posted in the forum to say he was seeking to find fellow anti-natalists in and around Washington to “start some protests or just any in-person events,” according to court papers. The post did not receive any public comments.

Park and Bartkus visited each other going back at least a year, their relatives told investigators, according to court records.Rodríguez reported from San Francisco, and Offenhartz from New York. Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Phillip Marcelo in New York contributed.

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