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Celebrating the American Warrior Last March we packed up our grandson and gave him to the U.S. Marines. Last week, they gave him back...for ten days. When he left us in March, he was already a fine young man. Polite, soft-spoken, disciplined. He was the most prepared Marine recruit you could imagine. While waiting for ...
It took a decade for Dennis Sutton's story of serving in the U.S. Marine Corps to have a somewhat happy ending. Somewhat, because there can never be a truly happy ending when you get shot in the head and suffer the after-effects of your injury for the rest of your life. But in the 1970s — he can't remember the exact date — a heavy weight was lifted from Mr. Sutton's shoulders, he said, when ...
From their foxholes on Cape Gloucester in the South Pacific, U.S. Marines fighting Japanese forces heard an unusual war cry from their enemies: "To hell with Babe Ruth."
The once-grand El Hotel Centenario is now the decrepit El Hotel del Migrante Deportado — the Hotel of the Deported Migrant. It hosts a procession of lost souls. Mario Ramos stirs a pot of beans with a bent spatula as the men crowd into the kitchen, the ragged line stretching out the splintered doorway.
AT LEAST 30 US Navy personnel from the visiting USS Pearl Harbor will help fix and clean three public schools in Lapu-Lapu City next week as part of its community service activities during their five-day goodwill visit here. The ship arrived in the Cebu International Port yesterday. The US Marines and US Navy sailors will [...]
When piano-playing political humorist Mark Russell sat down with producers at WNED-TV to work on a one-hour retrospective of his work, the task of boiling down three decades of material — more than 100 hourlong TV specials — was daunting.
Of all the veterans’ monuments Ralph Sirianni has designed for city, town and village parks throughout Western New York, he walks past his favorite one nearly every day on his way into work.
Clarence Hugh Hudgens, 91, a resident of Raleigh, N.C, formerly of Sparta, passed away May 15, 2012, at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Mr. Hudgens was born April 6, 1921, in White County, to Clarence Hugh and Bessie Dell Parker Hudgens.
The Hartville community honored Uniontown Capt. Daniel P. Stiles, who was killed in February 2011 while directing traffic on state Route 619, with a memorial plaque in his honor as part of the village’s Memorial Day activities Saturday. Stiles, 46, served his country as a corporal in the U.S. Marines between 1982 and 1986. He served the village as a police officer for 15 years before joining ...
DETROIT -- Around the time he sold Domino's Pizza and the Detroit Tigers about 20 years ago, Tom Monaghan stopped doing most interviews. He devoted himself to Catholic education, most prominently by founding Ave Maria University, now based near Naples, Fla., where he spends much of his time these days raising money for the school.
By Victoria Moll-Ramirez, Weekend TODAY Every day we go about our daily business while thousands of men and women we don't even know are overseas fighting for our safety. As you're on your way to the beach this weekend, or at the cash register paying for that new grill, …
May 27, 2012: The U.S. Navy is equipping all its ships with Breathalyzers (portable devices that police are often seen using to determine if a driver is "legally drunk" or close to it).
Samaritan House closed for the holiday Samaritan House in Romeo will be closed on May 25 and May 29 to celebrate the Memorial Day holiday. Normal hours will resume on May 30 and the Neighbors Caring for Neighbors clinic will be closed on Monday, May 28.
Courtney Alise Peterson of Florence and USMC Sgt. Robert Edward Mitterando III of Mastic Beach, NY were married on May 27, 2012, at 5:00 pm at The Islander Suites, Emerald Isle, NC.
Like most fathers, Brandun Schweizer wanted to witness his first child’s birth. There was just one problem, however — he was thousands of miles away in Afghanistan.
DANSVILLE — A U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who grew up in Dansville will be among the veterans honored at the annual Memorial Day concert Sunday on the National Mall.
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