The organizers of the ceremony turned off a speaker’s microphone when the former U.S. Army officer began talking about how freed Black slaves had honored fallen soldiers soon after the Civil War.
The author recalls how she met her husband, who replaced his friend in a marathon. She was unable to thank the friend, a West Point grad, who died in Iraq in 2006.
Not only were several U.S. military posts in South Korea among the first to test troops for coronavirus, but in an effort to #KillTheVirus, U.S. Forces Korea social media accounts have been killing it.