WWII Veterans

In ninth grade, Luke Basso began documenting the stories of veterans. Basso skipped his high school graduation this year to go to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Taking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service, novelist Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, "Good Night, Irene," explores the "Donut Dollies," an all-women volunteer group launched by the Red Cross during WWII.

A New York politician who's believed to be one of the last World War II veterans serving in a state legislature is about to retire.State Sen. William…