The 28 former soldiers, all but two of whom are dead, who were wrongfully convicted for rioting and lynching an Italian P.O.W. on a Washington military base during World War II, were given a formal apology from the military Saturday. The story of what happened to the black GIs at Fort Lawton so long ago was recently resurrected in the 2005 book, On American Soil. The Army had to take notice. "We had not done right by these soldiers," Ronald James, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, said Saturday. "The Army is genuinely sorry. I am genuinely sorry." [MSNBC]