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On June 8, the Agent Orange Foundation will visit GI Joes Military "Living History" Museum to award Agent Orange Medals to veterans. The event will also feature participation from Vets to Vets United, represented by board member Dan Vertaro, a veteran support dog program, and counselors from ECU Health to discuss support for aging veterans and caregivers.
Today is Memorial Day, a day that honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. At first, this observance was called Decoration Day. Citizens would decorate the grave of the fallen soldiers in the years following the Civil War. That grueling four-year blood bath claimed the lives of almost half of all the war dead from all the wars throughout our nation's history.
In October 1968, I turned 18. I was about halfway through my first Fall Semester at Ohio State, plodding through Freshman Comp, Differential Calculus, and the first course in the freshman chemistry sequence.
Every legal vote should be counted but that, according to many investigative agencies, just did not occur in this election. We must stop this from ever happening again. One observer probably had it right when he said, as millions of ballots were being sent out without regard to authenticity, "The fix is in." If we deny ourselves the right to free and fair elections, we will be headed in the direction of many third-world countries whose people are governed by a handful of despots who govern by force without regard to the will of the people.
ICYMI: Watch the F-15E flyover at UNC Lenoir Health Care. The flyover in eastern NC was dedicated to our healthcare employees and emergency services personnel on the front lines of COVID-19.
Dr. Travis Towne submits a letter to the editor about teaching his daughter the importance of Memorial Day.
NC Senator Jim Perry gives a perspective on renewable energy’s impacts on military bases in NC and across the country.
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base will be conducting an active shooter exercise Wednesday afternoon.
G.I. Joe’s Military Museum held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its reopening on Thursday.
In our first Letter to the Editor, Kinston native Glenn Batten discusses the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA).
