The unthinkable choice faced by military families after WWII
By: Richard Sisk | Published: 2026-05-22 20:00:58 | Source: www.militarytimes.com
The accounts of the day said that an “awesome silence” so unnatural to Manhattan fell over the waterfront after the big guns of the battleship Missouri fired off blank charges from the Hudson River in tribute to the returning war dead.
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The silence then greeted the U.S. Army Transport ship Joseph V. Connolly as she sailed up the Narrows past the Statue of Liberty and eased into the berth at…
