Rob Kauder

When Thad McManus, 79, a retired teacher who lives in Poulsbo, spoke about the Cuban Missile Crisis to his history students at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, where he was a teacher for 28 years before retiring in 1998, he wasn’t quoting from a book. He’d been there.

With Memorial Day 2022, the first in many years that the United States is not engaged in a major war on foreign soil, we are reminded that conflicts always come with a first casualty as well as a last.

Fairchild tankers arrive in Germany to support NATO as Russia-Ukraine War approaches third week

Fairchild deploying tankers, 150 personnel to support NATO operations

By the summer of 1918, after four long years in the trenches of Europe, the beaches of Gallipoli, the sands of Palestine, the frigid seas at Jutland and the jagged mountaintops of Italy, the end was in sight.

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens.

One person has died in a head-on crash Tuesday afternoon on Highway 53 at the intersection with Chase Road near Rathdrum.