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Memorial Day has undergone many changes in its almost century-and-a-half history. What began as Decoration Day after the Civil War has become a three-day national holiday to honor all those who gave their lives in military service. MEMORIAL DAY From small-town marches and the placement of American flags on graves to the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington, D.C., shown above, and President Obama’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery today, the tradition takes on a deeper significance every year.
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The Islamic State seized Ramadi because the Iraqi military “showed no will to fight,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said in an interview that aired Sunday, offering sharp criticism of the Iraqis while defending the U.S. military’s tactics. Carter said Iraqi forces outnumbered the militants in the capital of Anbar province but retreated. “What apparently happened is the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered,” Carter said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. That says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves,” he said, using a common abbreviation for the Islamic State fighters. “We can give them trainGETTY IMAGES ing. We can give Defense Secrethem equiptary Carter ment. We obviously can’t give them the will to fight,” he said. Carter’s comments are the toughest public critique of the Iraqis from a high-ranking U.S. official since the Islamic State’s surprise takeover of Ramadi a week ago Sunday. Over the weekend, senior defense officials told USA TODAY that Iraqi security forces fled Ramadi despite holding as much as a 10-to-1 advantage over their opponents. U.S. officials are blaming the Iraqi military amid new questions about the Obama administration’s approach in Iraq, which includes airstrikes against ISIL and training Iraq’s army. The administration has not committed any U.S. ground troops to the fight, and in Sunday’s interview Carter did not indicate any change in strategy. He said the Pentagon has not recommended putting U.S. military spotters on the ground to help guide American airstrikes against ISIL targets. Arizona Sen. John McCain, the GOP chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Ramadi’s fall underscores a need to send in U.S. combat forces. WASHINGTON
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In many ways, Ireland remains a heavily Catholic country. Yet Friday’s emphatic “Yes” vote to same-sex marriage rights represents a seismic shift in the nation’s social liberalization and challenges the Roman Catholic Church to rethink its role in Irish society. “We must not move into the denial of the realities,” Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said after voters approved a constitutional change that gives same-sex couples the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples. “I appreciate how gay and lesbian men and women feel on this day,” said Martin, who voted DUBLIN
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Crash kills ‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician Nash, wife Nobel winner coped with mental illness Fredreka Schouten USA TODAY
John Nash, the Nobel Prizewinning mathematician whose life story inspired the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind, and his wife, Alicia Nash, were killed Saturday in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, New Jersey State Police said. The Nashes were in a taxi when the driver lost control while trying to pass another vehicle,
Sgt. Gregory Williams said. The taxi crashed into the guardrail and then into another car. The Nashes were ejected and died at the scene, Williams said. The taxi driver was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Nash, who shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, was 86, while Alicia Nash was 82. They lived in Princeton, N.J., police said, where John Nash was a senior research mathematician at Princeton University. Princeton’s president, Christopher Eisgruber, called the Nashes “very special members” of the university’s community. “John’s remarkable achieve-
“John’s remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians.”
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ments inspired generations of mathematicians, economists and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant, groundbreaking work in game theory,” Eisgruber said in a statement released Sunday.
A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe, was based loosely on Nash’s life and long battle with schizophrenia. As depicted in the film, Alicia Nash was his caregiver while he struggled with his mental illness.
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In a tweet Sunday, Crowe said, “Stunned ... my heart goes out to John & Alicia & family. An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.” Nash was considered a pioneer in the field of game theory, devising a tool that economists and others could apply to competitive situations from trade negotiations to legislative battles. But it was his life story, chronicled first in a biography by Sylvia Nasar and in the Ron Howard film, that brought him fame. John and Alicia Nash divorced in the early 1960s, but Alicia Nash remained close to him and let him live in her home.