Thanks to a partnership with Windy City Sweets, graduating U.S. Navy boot camp can be marked with specialty sweets and chocolates.

The Hershey Co. has released specially-wrapped military appreciation bars just ahead of the Fourth of July.

American soldiers used chewing gum to quench thirst and reserve water supplies in World War I, but as its popularity spread through Europe, so did aversion to it. Among its detractors was Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Contributor Curtis Vreeland tells the story in an excerpt from "Candy Goes to War."