The four Filipino archaeologists knelt shoulder to shoulder in a trench only slightly larger than a toddler’s sandbox, shaving away paper-thin layers of earth and filling buckets with soil beneath a blazing early afternoon sun on the Philippine island of Mindanao. A few feet away, Mike Henshaw, who spent much of his 25-year U.S. Army […]
Ken McLaughlin
Ken McLaughlin is a freelance writer based in Scotts Valley, California, who spent 35 years at the San Jose Mercury News, where he was a reporter, editorial writer and editor. He’s written extensively about politics, marine science, Vietnam, immigration, and race and demographics. He has a master's in journalism from Stanford University and
taught aspiring science writers for a decade at UC Santa Cruz.
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Why Is It Taking So Long to Identify America’s Unknown Fallen Heroes?
Buried beneath the curved, sweeping rows of white marble crosses and Stars of David at the Manila American Cemetery lies a special kind of American hero. Their headstones carry no names. No ranks or branches of the military. No dates of death. Each grave marker bears the same inscription: “Here rests in honored glory a […]
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American MIA Group and Filipino Muslim Government Unite to Bring Home World War II Servicemen
For several generations, the rain-soaked soils of Mindanao Island have slowly swallowed the remains of scores of American and Filipino soldiers who vanished in the chaos and brutality of World War II. Now, however, a flicker of deliverance has emerged: a groundbreaking partnership between a Virginia-based nonprofit organization and officials of the autonomous Muslim government […]
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POW Witness: He Was Forced to Watch an Execution of U.S. Soldiers. 80 Years After WWII, His Story Sparks a Search for Their Remains
At 96 years old, a former World War II POW is helping researchers locate the burial site of US soldiers executed by the Japanese in the Philippines.
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Fifty-Two Years After a US Spy Plane Was Shot Down Over Laos, a Family Still Fights For Answers
The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.
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Emissions War Escalates—Pollution From World’s Militaries in Spotlight at UN Summit
Should international climate pacts require militaries to report the amount of greenhouse gases they release into the atmosphere?
