It has been 23 years since U.S. Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch's life changed forever. Lynch was a 19-year-old private from West Virginia when she deployed to Iraq. Three days into her ...

Proof of Work (PoW) is a consensus mechanism used by blockchain networks to achieve distributed consensus. It is the original consensus mechanism, first used by Bitcoin in 2009. In PoW, network ...

Heroic Vietnam War veteran Robert Stirm — who appeared in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showing the excited reunion between the long-held prisoner of war and his family — has died, his family ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Retired Col. Robert Stirm, featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Burst of Joy,” a symbol of the Vietnam War’s ...

Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, the Air Force officer whose return from captivity during the Vietnam War was captured in an iconic photograph in 1973, has died at 92, according to CBS News. Stirm, an F-105 ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...

A pair of House bills introduced last week seek to change how the Veterans Affairs Department assesses health care benefits for one group of service members and offer a path to citizenship for others.

From the battlefields of the Revolutionary War to the trenches of World War II to the sprawling jungles of Vietnam, thousands of our patriotic service members have been horrifically captured by the ...

When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II, she noticed the resemblance immediately. When Anna Gabulya saw a television ...

The VFW post's ceremony starts at 6 p.m., Sept. 19, at the post, 6440 N. Hix Rd. The VFW post's ceremony, which starts at 6 p.m., Sept. 19, at the post, 6440 N. Hix Rd. A half-century after the end of ...

On Sept. 13 and 14, the park will host the United Lenape/Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow, its first intertribal gathering since 1972 and the second-ever Lenape Pow Wow in New York City. The weekend welcomes ...

Melanie Cardone-Leathers, a librarian at Longwood Public Library in Middle Island, was conducting an inventory of historical documents in 2010 when a discolored file box containing photographs and ...