Michael Ruane
Reporter at The Washington Post
Washington Post, covers monuments, institutions, lore, ghosts, people of the Capital, topics historical, martial, medical [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Michael Ruane
Share Paul Morando lifted the lid on the wooden crate that had been shipped to the National Museum of the US Army from England the night before. He paused, took a pair of blue gloves from a coat pocket, and put them on. He and an assistant, Lisa Noll, removed the crate’s two inner covers. They pulled out the white packing paper. And Morando, the museum’s chief curator, lifted out the 275-year-old sword. “There it is,” he said — the sword of British Gen.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Michael Ruane
Paul Morando lifted the lid on the wooden crate that had been shipped to the National Museum of the US Army from England the night before. He paused, took a pair of blue gloves from a coat pocket, and put them on. He and an assistant, Lisa Noll, removed the crate’s two inner covers. They pulled out the white packing paper. And Morando, the museum’s chief curator, lifted out the 275-year-old sword. “There it is,” he said — the sword of British Gen.
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2 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Michael Ruane
The surrendered sword that gave birth to America returns to Virginia (washingtonpost.com) The surrendered sword that gave birth to America returns to Virginia By Michael E. Ruane 2025061312235300 Paul Morando lifted the lid on the wooden crate that had been shipped to the National Museum of the U.S. Army from England the night before. He paused, took a pair of blue gloves from a coat pocket, and put them on.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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