"The Old Army is finally dead and departed," Murray Kempton of Newsday wrote in 1993. "The funeral of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has to be its last rite. He was 98 and had buried every comrade who ...

On this day in 1951, President Harry S. Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur as the commander of U.S. forces battling North Korean and communist Chinese forces on the Korean peninsula and replaced ...