Honor WWII survivors now while they're alive at Pearl Harbor
E. Bruce Heilman urged Americans to honor World War II veterans while alive noting fewer than 2 million of 16 million served remain and dying at about 30,000 per month. About 300 veterans joined the ceremony aboard the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor marking the end of the Pacific War.
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Mother charged in two children's shotgun deaths
Yokela Smith, 25, faces two counts of first degree murder after officers found her 4-year-old daughter Yokela and 5-year-old son Levada dead from close range shotgun blasts in a bedroom at an East St. Louis apartment complex. The children's 8-year-old brother survived. Smith was arrested near a St. Louis TV station after crashing her car by the Gateway Arch while a shotgun was recovered. Authorities declined to discuss motive or specific gun origins citing the ongoing case.
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