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Larry McCall Securing the Mekong Delta

Larry McCall Securing the Mekong Delta

From Welcome 探花精选, Brother by Michel Robertson John 鈥淟arry鈥 McCall graduated from high school in 1967 and was drafted into the Army in 1968 at age nineteen. He and nine other young men from his North Carolina mountain community reported to Fort Bragg for basic...

Physical Therapy in a War Zone

Physical Therapy in a War Zone

Interview with Myrl Jean Hughes By Janis AllenWWII Pacific Theater Myrl Jean Hughes tells her story: 鈥淚 grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, 100 miles from the Canadian border. My dad owned a printing business, printing stationery and booklets and other things. I had a...

Korean War Combat Medic

Korean War Combat Medic

The Thomas Greenway Story By Ken Corn Polk county resident Thomas Greenway stands over his dining room table and spreads out a pile of old black and white photographs he took in Korea seventy years ago.VP Ken Corn talks with Korean War Combat Medic Thomas Greenway at...

Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

Private Bradford Freeman of Caledonia, Mississippi and Colonel Ed Shames of Virginia Beach, Virginia are the only two living members of the "Band of Brothers" 101st Airborne Division, WWII.An Interview with Bradford C. Freeman By Janis AllenBrad Freeman was one of...

Honoring Vietnam War Veterans

Honoring Vietnam War Veterans

By Michel RobertsonThe photos in this article are of local Vietnam War veterans, many of whom you may know. See whether you鈥檙e able to recognize them! Today, March 29th, is National Vietnam War Veterans Day, a day of remembrance established by the Vietnam War Veterans...

Gil Mays flies the TBF Avenger

Gil Mays flies the TBF Avenger

Rutherford County resident Gil Mays (center) with his crew next to their TBF Avenger onboard the U.S.S. Yorktown in 1944.聽 There were three聽crew聽members: pilot, turret gunner and radioman/bombardier/ventral gunner.An interview with WWII pilot Gil Mays and his son...

They call you Doc

They call you Doc

Thomas Greenway tells his story from his home near Columbus, North Carolina."They call you 'Doc' on the front line."聽 By Michael McCarthy鈥淭his is part of my great-grandfather鈥檚 place right here. I worked about a year in Community Cash store in Spartanburg. I was just...

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