American servicemen and women returned from war to bigotry, exclusion, and overt racial violence—precisely because they had chosen to serve their country.
Human Rights
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Wounded Knee Massacre ‘Tarnishes’ Integrity of Medal of Honor
After soldiers killed women and children at the end of the Indian Wars, the soldiers received the military’s highest award.
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We Trudged Through an Unknown, Unexperienced Evil—Unaware How That Evil Took Hold in Us
Joseph Simboli Jr., of the 89th Infantry Division, helped liberate Ohrdruf, the first Nazi concentration camp discovered by American forces in April 1945.
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“We Were So Hungry We Ate Our Fear”–Those Without Freedom Risk Their Lives For Change
What could we do as our brothers and sisters risked their lives back home? Nothing except yell from across the ocean and tell them we stand with them.
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From Death Threats to a French Dandy, Afghan Contractors Abandoned by the U.S. Struggle to Find Asylum Abroad
The Taliban wants him dead. Because he worked for the Americans. But he didn’t ask for help from the people he saved by throwing away everything he had.
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The Coast Guard, a Rubber Dinghy, and Plucking “Fleeing Souls”
Sarah Holzhalb wonders if the migrants she and her Coast Guard boat scooped out of the water are alive today, and what lives they returned to.
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“We Owned the Night”—a Midnight Raid in Iraq With Screaming Banshees
Augusto Giacoman almost jumped for joy when he was assigned his first midnight raid, but what he saw that night quickly changed his mind.
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An Attack From Within: Male Marines Ambush Women In Uniform
The Defense Department is investigating the orchestrated stalking and the deliberate collection, and distribution of photographs of active duty and veteran women. Dozens of victims were identified by their name, rank, and duty station. Our exclusive investigation.
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A Centuries-Long Battle to the Ambiguity of War
Read how George Heath examines the questions surrounding the definition of a crime during wartime, which are largely unsettled. In modern warfare combatants dress as civilians and war is waged more covertly than ever.
