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Charles Thomas (Tom) Ross of Chocowinity died at age 83 on December 12. 2025.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 @ 7:49 am
By: Announcements
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On 10/18, the family of General Colin Powell, the first black Secretary of State who served under three Republican presidents before endorsing former President Barack Obama twice, announced the 84-year-old former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had died “due to complications from Covid 19.”
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 8:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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"Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam" This refrain from Dave Dudley's country ditty, an integral melody in the soundtrack of the classic "Full Metal Jacket" regarding a more patriotic approach to the Vietnam predicament.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The president's veto upheld in the upper chamber, the bill dies there and does not go to the House.
Published: Monday, May 11th, 2020 @ 11:33 am
By: LifeZette
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President also lifts sanctions against Turkey, 'unless something happens that we're not happy with'
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 11:52 am
By: LifeZette
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Cambodian Genocide (The Killing Fields) was the dream of Pol Pot to return Cambodia to an agrarian society by murdering the elite.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 6:17 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I did not serve with Lt. General Harold Moore but I benefited from his trail blazing techniques in the use of helicopter warfare. May have possible seen the movie about the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14-15, 1965 at LZ X-Ray in South Vietnam.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2017 @ 12:30 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Here are the North Vietnamese. No series would be complete without mentioning both sides of a conflict. South Vietnamese communist were labeled Viet Cong.
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2017 @ 1:06 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) surrendered in 1975 ending foreign domination started by the French in 1861.
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 @ 4:59 am
By: Ted McDonald
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New Zealand provided a force of combat soldiers despite protests at home. A total of 3800 served in combat resulting in 37 killed in action and 187 wounded.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 5:52 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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The battle of Tra Binh Dong was between the South Koreans and North Vietnamese.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2017 @ 2:47 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Wyatt Sanderman Day was a friend I made as he entered his twilight years. One would not believe that singular truth by looking at the man: his peppery hair, his square jaw, his thick working-man-hands, but make no mistake about the fact, his days were surely numbered.
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In normal times this would be a rhetorical question but this is an election year and if something is in the headlines it can lead one to believe we never really new this was an issue.
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2016 @ 7:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The Burr campaign today announced the "Veterans for Burr" leadership team with members from cities and towns throughout North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 @ 6:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Knowing where you are is very important when you need fire support, but it is more important that the fire support crew know where you are.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 @ 12:22 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Conscientious Objectors (COs) could serve as Chaplains or Medics and op out of carrying weapons.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 10:52 am
By: Ted McDonald
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A few days ago an investigative reporter did a look back on the history of businessman, Donald Trump
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 2:17 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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The theme of this year's issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review is "North Carolina Literature in a Global Context." The print issue features cover art by Chapel Hill resident Eduardo Lapetina, a native of Argentina.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It is hard to believe how fast time flies. When I was 18 major things were happening in our country. I was fully aware of Selma and the march because Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a resident of Atlanta.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:34 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Thomas F. Conlon, a U.S. Foreign Service officer who served in Saigon during of the Vietnam conflict, died on December 31, 2014 in Sterling, Virginia. The former Washington (N.C.) resident was 90.
Published: Sunday, February 1st, 2015 @ 12:33 am
By: Announcements
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On occasion, we will offer two or more opinion vignettes from Gene Scarborough. These are two of them.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 3:38 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I guess I learned the Pledge of Allegiance way back in 1946 when I was in the first grade. I am sure I didn't really understand the implications but it didn't take long before I could recite it from memory.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2011 @ 10:39 am
By: George H. Schryer
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The Wall that Heals, which is a scaled down replica of the Vietnam War Monument on the Mall in Washington, DC, came to the Veterans Park in Washington, NC.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 @ 1:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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