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Emmy Award winning journalist Heath Allen started at WDSU in 1994 as anchor of the midday news. He now reports on a wide range of issues around New Orleans, southeast Louisiana, and around the world, including most recently documentaries in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Cuba.

The Ledo Road helped the Allies fight the Japanese in China, and also kept many Chinese from starving.

Having a post office was vital to any community, no matter how small. Some maps would not recognize a community’s existence if they did not have a post office. The postmaster was the go-to person for information, complaints and keeping mail moving in and out of that post office to suit the government and its customers/patrons. Nine men were appointed El Campo postmaster between 1890 and 1936. Christian Bruns was appointed March 17, 1890. A land agent for Weimar Land Co., he resigns as more...

It may be that making raspberry shrug from backyard berries and drinking it down on a hot summer day; or writing poems; or even revisiting the sites of memory with

Advertisement One by one, the Marines approached the podium to speak about their brothers-in-arms killed in Sangin, Afghanistan. Each of the 25 men who died with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during the tour that ended this month was honored Friday at Camp Pendleton by a Marine who knew him best. A memorial for Camp Pendleton Marines on the front page of U-T San Diego April 30, 2011 (U-T) Their voices quavered at times and their happiest memories were undercut by sadness, but the respe...

“Combat is two men armed with clubs standing toe-to-toe beating the sh-t out of each other until one dies.” That was the succinct definition of combat by an Army battle buddy of mine in Iraq, a very highly decorated, extensively experienced Infantry senior officer.  What does this extraordinarily accurate definition of combat mean for women who wish to serve in combat arms and are being told they have equal capabilities for the face-to-face fight as men? The short answer is: Size matters a...

Combat engineer Jay Rencher Displayed incredible heroism clearing obstacles from Utah Beach on D-Day. Heres What You Need to Know: Their task required good ears, steady hands, and more than a little luck. Nineteen-year-old army combat engineer Jay Rencher blinked the salt spray from his eyes, filled his lungs, and again plunged beneath the cold, roiling waves. Minutes earlier, his three-man team had slipped stealthily from a pitching landing craft into the frigid waters of the English Channel,...

Additional forces. senior u.s. defense officials say the moves are in response to irans aggressive behavior and not annual attempt to provoke them. the democratic house armed services committee chairman disagrees, quote: adding more personnel and mission systems seems unwise and appears to be a blatant and heavy handed move to further escalate tensions with iran. the new american forces are not going to iraq or syria but will join. so 80,000 u.s. service members already deployed to the middle ea...

Other troops will be extended. president trump spoke about the deployment a short time ago. >> we want to have protects in the middle east. were going to be sending a relatively small number of troops, mostly protective and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now. well see how -- well see what happens. it will be about 1,500 people. >> 600 troops in the region, part of a patriot aircraft missile battalion here will be extended from their current deployment. additional tr...

Stunt. you have a few thousand desperate people out of central america. i spent a lot of time down there in justice, poverty, violence. theyre fleeing an economic situation they cant deal with, so its a humanitarian problem, it is an immigration problem, but the last thing you really need are combat engineers and military policemen. it was a political gesture leading up to the midterms. >> and we have quit to hear from general mattis and general dunford about this. >> theyre supposed to be respo...