It all started when Richard Tado received a call from his friend, 105-year-old World War II U.S. Army Air Corps pilot Edward “Bud” Berthold, that his bathroom had flooded. Tado, a U.S. Coast ...

Patty Knies didn’t know that her uncle, James Bennett, of Oak Lawn, received a Purple Heart after twice being wounded in World War II.

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of ...