On a remote Pacific sandbar, replete with the ravages of war, a small group of veterans, volunteers and archeologists are doing their best to keep the enduring promise of “no man left behind.” ...

Officers and personnel of the 2nd U.S. Marine Division who fell in the battle for Tarawa atoll, Gilbert Islands, in November 1943, are buried in this cemetery, shown here on March 20, 1944. Photo by: ...

Nancy Lee was a toddler when the telegram arrived on Christmas Eve in 1943, two years deep into World War II. She was too young to read it but not to sense its impact. Her half-brother Whitey was dead ...

For an island frozen in time, the digging has stopped, but the dust hasn’t settled. We've returned to the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, a sandbar the size of the National Mall. The island is filled with ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A 29-year old Marine from Chicago killed in action nearly 74 years ago will be buried next week with full military honors. Jeri Heise never knew her father, Marine 2nd Lt. George Bussa ...

More than 20 American service members who were killed in a bloody World War II battle are finally back on U.S. soil – and are one step closer to getting the burials they rightfully deserve. An Air ...

Marine Pfc. Edward A. Nalazek, a Chicagoan born to proud Polish immigrants, died in 1943 with nearly 1,000 fellow Marines at the Battle of Tarawa during World War II. He was 27. A decade later, his ...

I have just returned from a long-hoped-for journey to hallowed ground. Hallowed to my family. Hallowed to the U.S. Marine Corps. Hallowed to many of the (sadly few) Americans who remember the brutal, ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...