Story by Senior Airman Racheal Watson | 460th Space Wing | 05.04.2016
The doors opened and I am pushed inside with a large group of people. We were packed in so tight, I tried to make myself smaller just so I can have a few extra inches around me to breathe only to have what little space I was able to spare filled by another body. The doors closed and I could barely move. I only traveled up three floors in an elevator, but time seemed to stand still. The doors......
Story by Julia LeDoux | Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall | 04.24.2015
Holocaust survivor Halina Yasharoff Peabody brought her story of courage, faith and determination to Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall April 24 as the installation observed Holocaust Remembrance Day at the community center on the Fort Myer portion of the joint base....
Story by Karen Abeyasekere | 100th Air Refueling Wing | 04.30.2014
"I remember the stench; there is no other word. It invaded the camp and all surrounding countryside - it was the result of hundreds, if not thousands of bodies lying around in open pits, awaiting burial," said Harold Burgh, World War II veteran and former warrant officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. "They were like skeletal, emaciated bodies."...
