Michael Ruane

1 month ago | unionleader.com | Michael Ruane

Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot descended through an opening in the deck of the sunken aircraft carrier and eased toward the image its operators wanted to see. Gradually, in the robot’s floodlights, it came into view - a 42-foot-long hand-painted mural of the Earth. The blue and white colors, shown on a public video feed, were still vibrant after almost 83 years on the bottom, the gray seahorses and gold compass motif still vivid.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Michael Ruane

Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot descended through an opening in the deck of the sunken aircraft carrier and eased toward the image its operators wanted to see. Gradually, in the robot’s floodlights, it came into view — a 42-foot-long hand-painted mural of the Earth. The blue and white colors, shown on a public video feed, were still vibrant after almost 83 years on the bottom, the gray seahorses and gold compass motif still vivid.

1 month ago | spokesman.com | Michael Ruane

Deborah Berlinger Eiferman rose from her wheelchair and was helped to the lectern set up in the grass near the grave of her uncle, Army Pvt. David Moser - her “baby uncle” as she called him - in Arlington Cemetery. She is 102. He was 20 when he died, a Jewish soldier killed by influenza in 1919 in Germany after fighting in World War I. But for over a century he had been in Arlington beneath a tombstone mistakenly incised with the Christian cross.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Michael Ruane

After a century, two Jewish soldiers get tombstones with Star of David at Arlington (washingtonpost.com) After a century, two Jewish soldiers get tombstones with Star of David at Arlington By Michael E. Ruane 2025041210000000 Deborah Berlinger Eiferman rose from her wheelchair and was helped to the lectern set up in the grass near the grave of her uncle, Army Pvt. David Moser — her "baby uncle" as she called him — in Arlington Cemetery. She is 102.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Michael Ruane

Army to resume horse-drawn caissons for funerals at Arlington Cemetery (washingtonpost.com) Army to resume horse-drawn caissons for funerals at Arlington Cemetery By Michael E. Ruane 2025040822063800 The Army said Tuesday that it was partially resuming its horse-drawn caisson program for funerals in Arlington National Cemetery, three years after an investigation found that neglectful treatment of horses had contributed to a spate of equine deaths. Maj. Gen.