There are a few calendar dates that are burned into the American psyche. Some endure for good and happy reasons. Everybody knows why we celebrate July 4 and December 25. Both are part of our national ...

For the first time since it was founded in 1958, members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association will not formally gather in Hawaii to commemorate the attack of Dec. 7, 1941. Their failing health ...

Numbers are the narrative of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago: 2,403 Americans were killed, 1,178 wounded, and 19 ships plus 328 aircraft were damaged or destroyed. It was an ...

So spoke President Franklin D. Roosevelt to members of Congress as he sought their declaration of war against the Japanese empire. Within a brief period after the speech, Congress approved Roosevelt’s ...

If you were born on Dec. 7, 1941, you’re 73 years old today. Imagine, then, if you had been an 18, 19 or 20-year-old witnessing the carnage of the Pearl Harbor attack firsthand. You’d be 91, 92 or 93.

With a divisive presidential election still fresh in people's minds, organizers of a rally Saturday in downtown Elmira hope to spread a message of hope and unity. The Elmira-Corning Branch of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wearing a tropical-print shirt, Wilmer “Bill” Bailey smiled brightly in a room of about 50 people. “It’s not a Hawaiian shirt; it’s my aloha shirt,” he said.