August 22nd, 2012
By Jan Barry In the summer of 1942, on his 21st birthday, Alfred Theodore “Ted” Graham, Jr., a trumpet player, volunteer fireman, and newspaper reporter from Jacksonville, New York, enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After training as an aerial gunner-radioman, ATG was assigned to Bombing Squadron 15, serving on the aircraft carrier USS Essex, which […]
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Tags: airman, combat, Graham, killed, losses, Navy, Pacific, World War II
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June 19th, 2012
By Tom Carter I’ve been closely following the legal case of a man who owns a ranch in a small Texas town. As reported here, Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man molesting her. The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities say, […]
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Tags: daughter, father, girl, grand jury, indictment, killed, molester, Texas
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May 2nd, 2011
By Seth Forman Bravo to our military forces and intelligence agencies, most of which have been working on getting Osama Bin Laden for more than a decade. They are the best there is. President Obama should take credit for it too, but only if he learns that relentlessness in war is what “solves” terrorism and […]
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Tags: 9/11, killed, Navy Seals, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan
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