Keith Callis News Today

A memorial service was held for an unaccompanied veteran U.S Navy airman Sammy Drew Hill. Volunteers and community members gathered to make his funeral service a memorable one.

LAMPASAS — Former U.S. Army tank gunner Keith Callis remembers heading into combat during the 1990-91 Desert Storm campaign to push Iraq out of Kuwait after the late Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded the neighboring Middle East country and defied worldwide calls to withdraw. “The ground war starts and we’re rolling along blowing things up with the (M-1 Abrams) tanks, and these guys (Iraqis) are walking at us with their hands up. We just told them to keep walking,” Callis,...