Seven years later, they still remember where they were that day. Marlene Rivera was sitting in her eighth-grade English class in Little Rock, Ark. ...more

September 12, 2008

It didn't take much of an imagination as Lisa Shasteen walked through the dust, hanging wires and paint cans in the old Floridan Hotel to sense the strains of a Tommy Dorsey tune, the clinking of cocktail glasses, the alluring aroma of cigarette smoke wafting across the air. ...more

July 24, 2008

Memorial Day is personal for me. I spent many summer nights listening to former vets tell stories about their experiences in Vietnam. I can't stop thinking about the Mickens High School graduate and two young men I knew who died in the Vietnam War. ...more

May 24, 2008

A timeline of Barbara Faulkenberry's ascension to brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force. ...more

May 23, 2008

A Sarasota boy with a prosthetic leg. An Indiana girl with a missing limb. A wounded Iraq war veteran from Chicago. ...more

October 27, 2007

CLEARWATER - A 9-year-old amputee from Sarasota. Another 9-year-old with a missing limb from Indiana. A wounded Iraq war veteran from Chicago. All strangers, they gathered at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium today, drawn by a shared bond: Winter, the tailless dolphin. ...more

October 26, 2007