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Only 1 in 6 million couples reach 80 years of marriage. This pair just did
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (301+ words) A St. Cloud, Minnesota, couple both recently turned 99 years old. And they just marked another, even rarer milestone: 80 years of marriage. Betty and Kermit Eastman celebrated their oak anniversary on June 6, joining a remarkably small group. On average, only one…...
How California's Fort Ord became a model for military integration
16+ hour, 58+ min ago (537+ words) Fort Ord, a U. S. Army base founded in 1917, made history as the first military base to implement full racial integration following President Harry Truman's 1948 executive order to desegregate the armed forces. From his business, The Brass Tap in Marina, Karl Waller…...
How the Manhattan Project changed the world
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (476+ words) In the summer of 1942, Los Alamos, New Mexico, became the center of the Manhattan Project, the U. S. Army's secret mission to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. "The Manhattan Project was the U. S. Army project during World War II to build…...
Oldest Pearl Harbor survivor is keeping the memory of the surprise bombing alive at 106
4+ week, 2+ day ago (954+ words) On the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, the country's oldest living survivor of the Japanese bombing was far below deck helping repair one of the boilers of the USS St. Louis. Freeman Johnson, who turned 106 in March, never witnessed…...
Trump says Russia and Ukraine agreed to his request for three-day ceasefire, prisoner swap
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (217+ words) President Donald Trump said Friday that the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners, adding that such a halt to hostilities could be the "beginning of the end…...
Divers locate wreck of America's largest naval loss of World War I after 107 years
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (586+ words) The German submarine captain saw his target's silhouette against the evening sky off the coast of southern England and gave the command to fire a single torpedo. It was the last anyone would see of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa…...
Upstate museum remembers Easley native who paid the ultimate sacrifice
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (132+ words) Captain Kimberly Hampton is being remembered for her life and legacy at an Upstate museum during Women's History Month. Cpt. Hampton was killed in action near Fallujah, Iraq in January 2004. Hampton was born in Greenville and grew up in Easley....
Remains of soldier killed in action returned to family in Henderson County
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (256+ words) It's a story more than 80 years in the making. In 1942, Luther "Dusty" Rhodes made the ultimate sacrifice. After DNA testing, his remains were flown home Tuesday. They say no man left behind. "They call him the kid because he was…...
WWII veteran shares story as he makes final push for Purple Heart at age 99
3+ mon, 8+ hour ago (448+ words) For Glenn Fisher, serving in the Army was never a question. "It was something that I just laid down my life for, and it's something that I earned. It's something that should be presented (to me)," Fisher said. Now, after…...
200 love letters found in a Nashville home tell story of couple's courtship during WWII
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (758+ words) Highlights from a trove of more than 200 love letters that tell the story of a couple's courtship and marriage during World War II are now on display digitally through the Nashville Public Library, offering an intimate picture of love during…...