EDITOR'S NOTE: When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in a farmhouse parlor in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, standing with other war correspondents in the front yard was William Downs MacGregor of The Associated Press.
What some diplomats are calling an attack by the Assad regime in Syria utilizing weapons of mass destruction, namely chemical weapons, has resulted in a response that may include the use of cruise missiles from the United States.