Military veterans yearning to turn their combat experiences into literary works can learn the craft of writing at a new workshop. ...more

December 2, 2007

Military veterans yearning to turn their combat experiences into literary works can learn the craft of writing at a new workshop. ...more

December 1, 2007

Military veterans yearning to turn their combat experiences into literary works can learn the craft of writing at a new workshop. ...more

December 1, 2007

Jim White, a gunner on a U.S Army Humvee, wasn't thinking about golf that morning in Arab Jabour some four months ago when hell suddenly rose up around him and two fellow soldiers, an improvised explosive device tossing their vehicle into a fiery, end-over-end tumble. If he had, however, it would not have been a surprise. ...more

November 25, 2007

Three disabled people have sued Walt Disney World for not allowing them to use their Segways to move around its theme parks. ...more

November 11, 2007

Retired soldier George Goldsmith is so fond of the 600 acres of twisted underbrush and towering pines on this Army training base, he plans to stay here for eternity. ...more

November 11, 2007

SEBRING — With songs, a poem and words of appreciation, Fred Wild Elementary School students honored and thanked our U.S. military veterans. Theresa Whidden's first-grade class recited a poem Friday that was composed by Whidden, which said in part: "On Veterans Day, we would like to say. With pride-filled hearts, thank you to the veterans who have done their part to keep us safe, to keep us free. Without their courage life as we know it might not be." World War II U.S. Army veteran, retired Cmdr. Sgt. Maj. Harold Linville told the students after Germany's defeat, he was going to be moved from the European theater to the war effort against Japan. But before his deployment, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two cities in Japan ending the war. ...more

November 10, 2007

Advocates for the disabled are pushing Walt Disney World and SeaWorld Orlando to lift a ban on the use of Segways at the theme parks, saying the scooters give people who can't walk a degree of personal freedom not afforded by wheelchairs. ...more

October 14, 2007

I would like to thank everyone who attended the POW-MIA in Avon Park, for it was a very spectacular program. Col. Hutchinson, with his JROTC giving tribute on the "Table" of the missing plate. The keynote speaker was introduced by Tom Macklin, and Elizabeth Steward, who is co-author of "An Enormous Crime," Barry and Susan Foster. Barry for all his help and write-up in the paper, and his wife Susan for the pictures she took. The city manager, CB Shirey, with all his help in getting our permits, and just being there for me. Wally Randall, I don't know what I would have done without you. Tom and Tammy Macklin, I know how you went out on a limb for me. David Flowers, I can't say what it meant to have you sing the American Trilogy, and play TAPS, just as the fireworks went off. I have not forgotten the Stardusters, who played patriotic songs for us to dance to before the program. ...more

September 28, 2007

From the war zone of Afghanistan to the Garden of Peace Cemetery in Plant City, Army Sgt. Cory Clark has come home. ...more

September 13, 2007