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Jeff Kronvack, a Gulf War veteran and member of the St. Clair American Legion, inspects the headstone of Josiah Wood, buried at a small cemetery in rural Blue Earth County.
Dan Greenwood
Members of St. Clair American Legion Post 475 held a ceremony at Bunker Hill Cemetery Monday honoring Josiah Wood, a Civil War veteran buried there.
Dan Greenwood
Bryce Stenzel, president of the Friends of the Boy in Blue, recites the Gettysburg address at Lincoln Park in Mankato Monday. The nonprofit created a database to identify and locate every Civil War veteran and grave in Blue Earth County.
Dan Greenwood
Normandy veterans and relatives across the UK gathered on Sunday to watch a special unveiling of a new memorial dedicated to those involved in the D-Day landings 77 years ago.
A Rogue Climber Running From the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma
A former paratrooper became an “urban explorer,” scaling the tops of bridges and buildings to help ease his PTSD. He now faces criminal charges in several states.
Isaac Wright, who served in the Army for six years, began taking stunning photographs from the top of tall structures as a form of therapy for PTSD.Credit.Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
June 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Isaac Wright pulled himself up onto the crest of a 400-foot suspension bridge last fall, looked down at the specks of headlights below, and experienced a rush he had not felt since he was paratrooper in an Army Special Forces battalion.