The United Daughters of the Confederacy decided to give to the community rather than to each other at a Dec. 8 gift exchange. ...more

January 5, 2008

A reunion softball game for U.S. and Japanese World War II veterans turned out to be the last mission for one former sailor. ...more

December 26, 2007

Eddie Vallina donned a sailor's cap Friday, made his way to the intersection of Rome and Mohawk avenues and held up a sign for commuters: "Remember Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941." ...more

December 8, 2007

AVON PARK — The day Walter Rollf found out Pearl Harbor had been bombed is one of the few times in his life he remembers crying. "When that happened and again when President Roosevelt died, I sat and bawled," Rollf said. Just 10 days before the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, Rollf, a Navy seaman, had been transferred out of Pearl Harbor. "I cried mostly because I wasn't there, and I feel like I should have been," Rollf said, then pausing. "I lost a lot of good buddies that day, and it made me feel worse because I wasn't there with them." Rollf, a fifth-generation military man, would be what many consider lucky, having never been in combat during his years in the military, but he says he wishes things were different. ...more

December 7, 2007

With some fluffy clouds, sunny and warm balmy breezes wafting in off the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean, service personnel and civilians were getting ready to attend church services or trying to sleep late having partied heavily the night before or else were just doing what people usually do on a Sunday morning back in these United States of America. ...more

December 7, 2007

•Hanukkah begins at sundown Tuesday. •Step back in time via the Henry B. Plant Museum's Victorian Christmas Stroll to experience how the holidays were celebrated a century ago. It's open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Admission is $10 for adults, $4 for children 3 to 11. ...more

December 3, 2007

TAMPA --- Linda Callejas, de 38 años, nació en Estados Unidos y se crió en Miami. Es hija de nicaragüenses, pero siente pasión por la historia de Cuba. Estudia ahora para un doctorado en antropología en la Universidad del Sur de la Florida, y a través de uno de sus profesores supo sobre la Sociedad La Unión Martí-Maceo, fundada en Tampa en octubre de 1900. ...more

November 5, 2007

'The Street of a Thousand Blossoms,' by Gail Tsukiyama (St. Martin's, $25) ...more

September 30, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe Seward remembers watching television on Sept. 11, 2001, and seeing the twin towers crumbling. ...more

September 18, 2007

I don't think the majority of our public will dismiss the Sept. 11 attack on our country, even though it has been six years – especially the ones who lost their loved ones. ...more

September 17, 2007