U.S. Military

ESPN draws fire for selecting Prince Harry for Pat Tillman award: ‘There are recipients that are far more fitting’

ESPN is drawing criticism for selecting Prince Harry as the Pat Tillman Service Award recipient at this year’s ESPYs, including from the fallen soldier’s mother and a host of one of the sports network’s more popular shows.

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Dwindling number of D-Day veterans mark anniversary with plea to recall WWII lessons

As young soldiers, they waded ashore in Normandy through gunfire to battle the Nazis. On Thursday, a dwindling number of World War II veterans in a parade of wheelchairs joined a new generation of leaders to honor the dead, the living and the fight for democracy in moving commemorations on and around those same beaches where they landed exactly 80 years ago on D-Day.

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