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Michael Ruane

Washington, D.C.

Washington Post, covers monuments, institutions, lore, ghosts, people of the Capital, topics historical, martial, medical [email protected]

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  • 1 day ago | unionleader.com | Michael Ruane

    Editor's Note: This article was originally published in 2015. It was not until three years after her mother died in 1990 that DeRonda Elliott opened the suitcase containing the letters her parents exchanged during World War II. Despite her mother’s urging, she had never been able to bring herself to read them. It was her parents’ private story. Her father, Frank, had been killed on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and afterward her mother seldom spoke of him.

  • 1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Michael Ruane

    81 years after he died in World War II, a young aviator comes home (washingtonpost.com) 81 years after he died in World War II, a young aviator comes home By Michael E. Ruane 2025052510000700 For many years after 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was killed in World War II, his parents kept his empty bedroom like a shrine to their only son. In the local cemetery, they placed a memorial stone etched with his name and an image of his Army Air Forces bomber.

  • 1 week ago | stripes.com | Michael Ruane |Joe Fleming

    Crew of the “Heaven Can Wait” bomber in Papua New Guinea. 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. is the middle figure in the back row, standing with his .45 pistol in a shoulder holster. (Courtesy of Scott Althaus) For many years after 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was killed in World War II, his parents kept his empty bedroom like a shrine to their only son.

  • 1 month ago | stuff.co.nz | Michael Ruane

  • 1 month ago | seattletimes.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 sea horses and gold compass motif still vivid.

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6 May 25

RT @ZelenskyyUa: Today, another 205 of our warriors have returned home from Russian captivity. Our ability to bring our people back is the…

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6 May 25

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5 May 25

RT @ZelenskyyUa: I spoke with Prime Minister of Australia @AlboMP. I congratulated him on a convincing election victory and thanked him fo…