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When the Russian army marches through Ukraine, they may just be met a battalion made up of “babushkas.” A group of older women has been volunteering in Ukraine since Russian separatists began conflict in the country eight years ago. During the conflict between Ukranian nationalists and Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, these women have helped move supplies, provide medical care and build a lookout tower. Now, the Russian army has invaded. On Feb. 14, 79-year-old Valentyna Konstantinovska already knew a Russian invasion of a wider scale was a possibility. She said she would not hesitate to fight when it...

It was a magically hot summer that year in July of 1969 when we prepared for the first moon walk with great anticipation. Like fables about the man in the moon or its composition being of green cheese, we likewise treated the impending news of this momentous event... only we knew it was not a fable. That did not change the absolute magic and unbelievability of that moment for us, back in our hot prairie town that summer. We lived in a working class neighborhood and the advent of color television had just only begun to be popularized amongst our...

5/9/2006 - BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AFPN) -- Olga finished school 70 years ago. After graduating, she became a teacher of Russian, German and finally mathematics for more than 30 years. She has so much to share about that time, but today, she has fewer and fewer people to hear her stories. Brothers and sisters, husbands and children have passed or moved too far away to visit. That’s why lunch with the American Airmen is such a treat, said Tech. Sgt. Victoria Querido. On May 4, Sergeant Querido led her final luncheon trip of the rotation, with a dozen Airmen from the...