Dennis Mccarthy

Oct 19, 2024 | dailynews.com | Dennis McCarthy |Dennis Mccarthy

Crosby Boghossian who is buried in gravesite 991. (Photo Courtesy Sherry Crosby) PUBLISHED: October 19, 2024 at 7:00 a.m.It had taken 108 years, but the forgotten man buried in gravesite 991 would never be forgotten again. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here.

Sep 14, 2024 | dailynews.com | Dennis McCarthy |Dennis Mccarthy

With a grateful nod to the pinup girls of World War II who did a wonderful job boosting the morale of our fighting men, there’s another group of pinup women who have been traveling the country for almost 20 years now doing the same great job for our wounded warriors and older veterans in VA hospitals and state veterans homes. These pinups don’t pose in pictures in a bathing suit like Betty Grable, or lingerie as Ava Gardner did. That’s not the kind of morale they’re providing.

Aug 18, 2024 | dailynews.com | Dennis McCarthy |Dennis Mccarthy

They were down to their last two biscuits for dinner. That was it. The proverbial cupboard was bare. It was just the two of them back then living in a one-room apartment at the Strand Hotel near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Helen Jean Hazlewood, a senior at Belmont High, and her mother, Susie. It was 1942 and there was a war going on. The country needed everyone to pull together. If you needed help, you pulled for yourself. Helen got a Saturday job at a local dime store making $8 a day.

Jul 20, 2024 | dailynews.com | Dennis McCarthy |Dennis Mccarthy

Sometimes, the best way to a woman’s heart is laughter. It worked like a charm for Morrie Savich. He was a young G.I. home from World War II where he served as a radio operator assigned to the 9th Air Force in Europe. No planes flew without Morrie giving them the thumbs up first. He was the Allies weatherman, making sure when our bombers and fighter planes took off on a mission, the weather where they were going was good enough to get the job done. A lot rode on his forecasts every day.

Jun 21, 2024 | dailynews.com | Dennis McCarthy |Dennis Mccarthy

One from the heart. Voula Psihalopoulos meets me at the front door of her Old Time Drive In restaurant in Shadow Hills, and points to a booth where longtime customers and friends Scott and Gladys Cappiello are splitting a hamburger — smiling at each other across the table like a couple of young lovebirds on a first date. They are 84. “Look at them,” Voula says. “They’re the epitome of true love. You don’t abandon ship.”Gladys has dementia.