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• Pentagon updates POW/MIA families

  May 19, 2013 in City on Page B1 Nearly 45 years after her brother’s warplane was shot down over North Vietnam, Terri Francisco-Farrell has finally learned the details of his death and has hopes of one day seeing …

• Shawn Vestal: Daughter brings father’s war diaries alive

    July 29, 2011 in City on Page A5 Duane “Swede” Nelson’s diary entry for April 1, 1945, was unusually long and detailed. You can understand why. He writes about the invasion of Okinawa and his surprise at the …

• Excerpts from Nelson’s WWII diaries

    July 29, 2011 in City on Page A7 Duane “Swede” Nelson served in the Marines from 1943 to February 1946, and he participated in some of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater. He kept three …

• Veteran gets prison time for attack on VA nurses

  July 8, 2011 in City on Page A6 An Army veteran who permanently injured two Veterans Affairs nurses during a 2009 attack was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in federal prison. James P. Scott, 43, apologized to the …

• Priest meets paratrooper who liberated his town during WWII

    February 20, 2011 in City on Page A1 Lying in a hospital bed, his heart failing, Allan Wood met a priest. The two were sharing a room at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center when Wood discerned the priest’s … 3

• Spokane vet put life in peril – again

  July 2, 2010 in City on Page A1 This William Wallace did not set out to win independence for Scotland. But the 80-year-old Korean War veteran did take a knife in the heart for another cause: keeping some … 9

• War memorial overwhelms, surprises Deer Park resident

  November 12, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Last week Deer Park resident Ray Daves stood in front of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. He closed his eyes as sobering memories filled his mind. Each …

• Veteran, wife died from single gunshot wounds

  September 3, 2009 in City An Iraqi war veteran and his wife found dead early Saturday in Republic both died of single gunshot wounds, authorities said today.

• Spokane author returns to WWII

  November 9, 2008 in Features on Page D1 For years after he stared down death, Ray Daves couldn’t forget the face of the Japanese fighter pilot who came close to killing him. The event occurred on Dec. 7, …

• ‘You’re like brothers’

    July 27, 2008 in City on Page A1 Not a day goes by that Dane Broadfoot doesn’t think about his time in World War II and the roughly 600 days of combat he experienced with the 1st Armored …

• Vets Remember Comrades

  May 28, 1995 in City on Page B1 1. Claude Hamilton, a 96-year-old WWI vet and co-founder of the American Legion post in Rockford. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. The army discharge papers of Claude Hamilton, signed …