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Military History of Central and Southern Indiana from WW1 to present. Official site for historic Camp Atterbury, Italian and German POWs at Camp Atterbury, Wakeman General Hospital, Freeman AAF, German, Japanese and Italian captured aircraft at Freeman Field, and Fort Benjamin Harrison. Also includes the 28th, 30th, 31st, 83rd, 92nd, and 106th Division, all of which trained at Camp Atterbury. Hosted and supported totally by the Indiana Army National Guard. Largest private web site in Indiana soon to be more than 8 Gigabytes. All information presented is original and not changed in any way. www.IndianaMilitary.org JimWest@iquest.net

WASHINGTON, April 21 - The Senate Finance Committee chairman, Charles E. Grassley, said Thursday that he would try to produce a Social Security bill with the support of Republicans alone, in an effort to jump-start a legislative effort now stymied by solid Democratic opposition. Mr. Grassley, whose committee will play the lead role on Social Security, acknowledged that it was a risky strategy and that he would need to attract some Democratic support once the bill reached the full Senate, if not sooner. But he said, with some frustration, that he had been unable to get the Democrats on his...

Holocaust Soldiers In February 1945, the Nazis classified 350 American POWs as Jews. PBS's documentary "Berga: Soldiers of Another War" sheds light on the nightmare that followed. by Victorino Matus 05/28/2003 12:00:00 AM Victorino Matus, assistant managing editor NOT THAT WE BASE OUR IMPRESSIONS on life in a German POW camp entirely on "Hogan's Heroes," but there is an understanding that life in a stalag wasn't nearly as bad as life, say, under the Japanese. Roughly 4 percent of Americans died in German and Italian camps while a staggering 27 percent died in Japanese camps. In Western Europe, Allied...