Author: Mark Patinkin, The Providence Journal

George “Bud” Thomas died on a WWII battlefield in 1944. Decades later, his remains were identified and laid to rest in his home state.

As America leaves its longest war, Vanna Nhem, now a Rhode Island cop, reflects on his parent’s flight from Vietnam and his own service.

Father and son Dan and Ron Remillard died within an hour of each other, both victims of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 176,000 people. in the USA