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Walking with giants
This Thanksgiving Day, like the previous three November holidays, will find the lovely Catherine and me about as far east from the harvested Illinois fields as one can get and still be on American soil. In fact, we'll be on federal soil, just seven blocks...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Religion and Belief, Washington, DC, Christianity, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Former midshipman sentenced to six months in military prison for rape of classmate
A former Naval Academy midshipman was sentenced to six months in military prison and dismissed from the Navy on Thursday after he was convicted of raping a female classmate. Midshipman 3rd Class Patrick Edmond, 20, was found guilty of raping the female...Tags: U.S. Military, Defense, Sexual Assault, Armed Forces, West Point
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Naval Academy Midshipman found guilty of rape
A seven-member military panel has found a Naval Academy midshipman guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a female midshipman. Twenty-year-old Midshipman 3rd Class Patrick Edmond of Jackson, Miss., was found not guilty of sodomy late Wednesday at a...Tags: United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
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What to do when the earth quakes
In the wake of the recent earthquake ("A tremor in the psyche," Aug 24), I asked people about their initial thoughts on what caused the shaking and swaying. My father thought he was having a stroke. My mother thought it was a truck rumbling by her office....Tags: Defense, Natural Disasters, FEMA, Armed Forces, Disasters and Accidents
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Employers add more jobs than forecast in July
American employers added more jobs than forecast in July and wages climbed. Payrolls rose by 117,000 workers after a 46,000 increase in June that was larger than earlier estimated, the Labor Department said Friday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News...Tags: Elections, Chicago Jobs, New Jersey, Labor Markets, Employment
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Unemployment: How to get ourselves out of the job crisis
Opinion L.A.President Obama and unemployment: Factories, auto manufacturers, healthcare providers and retailers are hiring, reports The Times' Don Lee, but the unemployment rate is nowhere near the magic 8% pundits say we need to reach for President Obama to win... -
Lake JROTC cadets visit Washington D.C. for class credit
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelAir Force Junior ROTC cadets from Mount Dora and Eustis high schools who recently made an eight-day trip to Washington, D.C. and toured the Pentagon will earn class credit for their efforts. Cadets from both schools got to visit monuments, Arlington... -
Former Navy destroyer to be sunk soon to create massive artificial reef
With almost every regulatory hurdle cleared, planners believe they are about two weeks away from sinking a 563-foot former Navy destroyer off the coast of Maryland to create the largest artificial reef on the Eastern Seaboard.
The Arthur W. Radford,...Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Delaware, Patapsco, Radford (Radford, Virginia), Lifestyle and Leisure
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Centenarians Springer and Shank share many similarities
janeth@herald-mail.comThere are many similarities in the lives of Madaline Springer and Paul Shank. Both were raised in large farming families for at least a portion of their childhood on Hopewell Road, attended the one-room Hopewell School and are longtime members of...Tags: Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Washington, DC, Christianity, Health, Hospitals and Clinics
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Army Selects Virginia Site for National Museum of the U.S. Army
Content ManagerThe U.S. Army has decided on the site for its national museum. The Army chose the North Post of Fort Belvoir, Virginia to locate the National Museum of the U.S. Army. The NMUSA is scheduled to open in June 2013. Secretary of the Army John McHugh...Tags: Virginia, Defense, Armed Forces, Ohio, Pennsylvania
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Fall of Gosport Navy Yard boosts Southern cause
Long before Virginia left the Union on April 17, 1861, newly appointed Navy secretary Gideon Welles worried over the fate of his biggest and most important ship yard.
Nearly three weeks before, he'd tried to raise reinforcements for the Gosport Navy Yard...Tags: Hampton Roads, Abraham Lincoln, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Wars and Interventions, Washington, DC
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A crooked road to civil war: Union, Confederate allegiances
On the 150th anniversary of Virginia's secession from the Union, it can be hard to remember how — for many months in early 1861 — the Commonwealth steadfastly resisted joining its Deep South neighbors.
When the voters of Elizabeth City,...Tags: Hampton Roads, Abraham Lincoln, Wars and Interventions, Elections, Career and Workplace
Nov 25, 2011
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Sep 30, 2011
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Sep 29, 2011
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Aug 27, 2011
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Aug 5, 2011
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Jul 20, 2011
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Jul 4, 2011
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Apr 14, 2011
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Apr 14, 2011
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