Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack on the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Over the next seven weeks they would ...

My colleague Roger Kaplan recently wrote an excellent review of the PBS documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which is an excellent description of the battles of Najaf and Fallujah during the Iraq war.

Upon graduation from the eighth grade at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rich Fountain in 1943, Clarence Mebruer went to work for his father's rock crushing business. At the time, workers were hard to ...