Tag: world war II
City celebrates D-Day anniversary
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
The City of Alexandria is commemorating the 78th anniversary of D-Day with two events over the weekend. Held tonight at...
AFF Review: ‘The Girl Who Wore Freedom’ is a gratitude-filled time...
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
“Others are passionate about soccer, golf, whatever else. For me, it’s June 6, 1944,” Henri-Jean Renaud says at the top of...
Seniors: Navigating COVID-19 when you are 65+
By Lindsay Hutter
Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, recently said “We may be done with COVID-19, but COVID-19 is not...
Potomack Company holds repatriation ceremony for stolen Ukrainian painting
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
A 1911 Ukrainian oil painting of Ivan the Terrible that was stolen during World War II and thought to be...
Torpedo Factory celebrates 100 years as building, 45 years as art...
By Hannah Himes | [email protected]
The Torpedo Factory has housed everything from torpedoes and dinosaur bones to World War II files and, now, the works...
My View: Musings as we commemorate the ‘Great War’
When I was a small child in the early 1960s, the impact of World War II was still being felt. My parents were children...
