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MILITARY MATTERS: War sole survivor remembers his brothers in ‘Three Wise Men’ book MILITARY MATTERS: War sole survivor remembers his brothers in ‘Three Wise Men’ book By Jason Dennis | January 20, 2021 at 9:57 PM EST - Updated January 20 at 10:14 PM COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Only one time in the nearly 20-year-long war in Afghanistan has an active duty combat member been pulled due to family members killed in battle. That Marine and his co-author of a new book focused on ...

Salina chainsaw artist turns tree stumps into works of art By Danton McDiffett “I never had the idea there was something I couldn’t do,” says Salina chainsaw artist Tim Rickman. Rickman has been carving a variety of wooden sculptures, chairs, benches and tables for the past four years, though he has enjoyed woodworking since he was 16. He recently carved “Three Bears” at the Edward Street home of Boone Vidricksen out of a dead maple tree. “I had a tree with three trunks,” Vidricks...

Washington’s new national security establishment is coming straight outta Beverly Hills. Mark Makela/Getty Images “Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.” —George Orwell, Future generations may well wonder how it came to pass that the federal government’s homeland security policy fell into the hands of a select group of people raised within a mere 23 neighborhoods inside the Los Ange...

A Day of Infamy and Epiphany By Rosemary Lewallen I watched in shock, glued to the TV as a mob of rioters stormed the Capitol Building, desecrating this temple of democracy, trying to shatter the tenets of our Constitution and the rule of law. I saw rioters arrogantly posing for “selfies” under the sacred dome of the rotunda, a man carrying a Confederate flag with pride, dishonoring the real flag of the United States of America, and disrespecting the 620,000 Americans who died in the Civil ...

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Leonor Rivera/Catholic Courier    |    01.14.2021 Celebrating Three Kings Day in January is one of our marriage and family traditions. It extends Christmas festivities, livening up a month that is cold and gloomy in upstate New York. When the boys were little, Ed shared his childhood tradition by teaching the boys to put dry grass in little shoe boxes to feed the camels when the Three Kings, also known as Magi or Wise Men, came to deliver gifts to them like they delivered gifts to baby ...

Bob Fisher with Larry Keating (background) © Guy Gurney / www.guygurney.com Key influencers in the world of UK dinghy sailing, like London buses, can often come in twos, with the best example of this being how the development of the sport here was driven by the shared presence of not just Jack Holt, but Ian Proctor. In the same way, the stories that made the era of the 1950s to the 1970s so golden (albeit at times tarnished) would be brought to us by a pair of incredible sailing jo...

Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, composer Gian Carlo Menotti viewed the Bosch painting "The Adoration of the Magi." It reminded him of

Just like the Christmas Star, this is a once-in-a-lifetime event

In a letter to Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo, Pope Francis expresses his closeness to the Venezuelan people, who are suffering because of the ...