28 h. ago Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront

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9 d. ago German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

Frank-Walter Steinmeier travels to Basque town for remembrance ceremony marking ‘terrible crimes’ of 1937Eighty-eight years after Luftwaffe pilots took part in the most infamous atrocity of the Spanish civil war, Germany’s president has visited the Basque town of Guernica to honour the victims of the Nazi bombing and to urge that the “terrible crimes” committed there are never forgotten.Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany’s pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Fake admiral' suspect who 'gatecrashed Remembrance ceremony' named by police

Images circulated on social media that showed a man dressed as an admiral decorated with medals during a wreath-laying ceremony on Remembrance Sunday, sparking public concern.

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3 w. ago 'Fake admiral' suspect named by police after 'gatecrashing Remembrance ceremony'

Images circulated on social media that showed a man dressed as an admiral decorated with medals during a wreath-laying ceremony on Remembrance Sunday, sparking public concern

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3 w. ago MoD launch probe into 'fake' admiral at Remembrance Sunday event wearing suspicious rare medal

Jonathan Carley, 64, is now the subject of an MoD investigation after being accused of posing as a military serviceman at the Remembrance ceremony in Llandudno, North Wales on Sunday.

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3 w. ago ‘The pain remains’: France remembers victims of 2015 Paris attacks

Bells ring out across French capital marking 10th anniversary of country’s deadliest peacetime attackParis attacks anniversary – in picturesFrance has paid tribute to the 130 people killed 10 years ago by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted a stadium, bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.“The pain remains,” Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media on Thursday as he visited each of the sites that were attacked. Bells rang out across the city as a remembrance ceremony began at a memorial garden in central Paris attended by relatives and survivors. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago King Charles leads Remembrance Sunday ceremony at London’s Cenotaph

King Charles leads Remembrance Sunday ceremony at London’s Cenotaph  Global News

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4 w. ago Video: King Charles III leads Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead in London

Video: King Charles III leads Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead in London  The Globe and Mail

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4 w. ago King Charles III leads Britain's Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead

King Charles III has led Britain’s annual ceremony of remembrance for war dead in London

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