World War I

Beltway Confidential

Raise a St. Patrick’s Day glass to ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, the greatest Irish American

Kevin Carroll · March 17, 2020 12:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

Return to glory

Peter Tonguette · February 14, 2020 4:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

The Meaning of War

Scott Beauchamp · February 7, 2020 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

1917 is a trailblazing movie across enemy lines

Tyler Grant · January 13, 2020 4:57 pm

On this day: A Christmas truce

Madison Dibble · December 25, 2019 10:48 pm

Military pallbearers carry the casket of British World War One soldier William McAleer during a reburial service at the Loos British World War One cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, France on Friday, March 14, 2014. Private William McAleer, of the 7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was killed in action on Sept. 26, 1915 during the Battle of Loos. His body was found and identified in 2010 during routine construction in the area and is being reburied with full military honors along with 19 unknown soldiers. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

National Security

Review: World War I film 1917 pays respect to the grunts

Russ Read · December 4, 2019 5:37 pm

Veteran Patrick Watson places a wreath at the base of a new Mural Arts Philadelphia piece titled "American Tableau" at the Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

National Security

'There isn't a city around that doesn't celebrate': How a Kansas shoe salesman created a holiday to honor all veterans

Russ Read · November 11, 2019 10:21 am

Philip Holdcraft, left, past commander of Colmar Manor American Legion Post 311, and Mike Moore, right, past commander of the Greenbelt American Legion Post 136. This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the meaning of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial (otherwise known as the Peace Cross) in the The American Legion v. American Humanist Association case. The Peace Cross memorial, located in the three-way junction of Bladensburg Road, Baltimore Avenue, and Annapolis Road in Bladensburg, Maryland, Monday, February 25, 2019. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether the nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state.

Supreme Court lets Peace Cross stand

Melissa Quinn · June 20, 2019 2:18 pm

France pays the price of grandeur

Chris Timmers · June 7, 2019 3:00 am

In this June 6, 1944 photo, members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion.

Washington Secrets

Poll: 59% predict World War III

Paul Bedard · June 5, 2019 4:11 pm

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive in the rain.

Documents confirm that rain was the cause for Trump missing WWI ceremony last year

Zach Halaschak · May 28, 2019 7:42 pm

A soldier with the 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, plays taps during the burial service of retired Army Col. Roger Brown, of Arlington, Va., at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, Aug. 6, 2018.

Our fallen service members, not our presidents or generals, are America’s real heroes

Kevin Carl Petersen · May 27, 2019 4:00 am