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Every year around Memorial Day I think back to the one and only time that I attended the Indianapolis 500 race. I was at the time a die-hard NASCAR fan, al

By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: May 23, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) — The Defense POW /MIA Accounting Agency said it has talked with the Navy about disinterring 94 sailors from the famed battleship USS Arizona who are buried as "unknowns" at Punchbowl cemetery in Honolulu. But not for identification and potential return to families, as is the usual case, and has been done with hundreds of other unknowns at Punchbowl — officially named the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The accounting agency disinterred 388 from the USS Oklahoma in 2015. ...

Jim Krumel: Youth newspaper carriers — a first job like few others Jim Krumel Steve Metzger of Elida has restored this 1967 Schwinn carrier bike that was similar to the one he used to deliver newspapers as a youth. He’s even made saddle bags for it and vows to one day ride it around the community. I’m sure of it. No doubt in mind. There’s ink in the blood of Al Meinerding, Eldon Miller, Margaret Finkenbine, Theresa Schnipke and countless others whose first job, way back when, was delivering newspapers. Putting that paper in the hands of their customers is as special to them today as ...

Don Stratton USS Arizona Survivor Exhibit Relocated to Pikes Peak Library District East Library COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- After two years at the Colorado Springs Airport, the Don Stratton USS Arizona Survivor Exhibit has relocated to the Pikes Peak Library District East Library. The Pikes Peak Legacy Heroes Foundation, hopes that having it here will expose more people to this powerful piece of history. Don Stratton, a survivor of the USS Arizona and former resident of Colorado Springs, passed away last February; but his legacy lives on at the Pikes Peak Library District’s East Libr...

Colorado Springs exhibit honoring USS Arizona survivor moves to new home Donald Stratton, who served aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, died last year in Colorado Springs. Author: Wilson Beese (9NEWS) Updated: 11:32 AM MDT April 21, 2021 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An exhibit honoring a survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II is open to the public again after being relocated. The exhibit for Donald Stratton, who died last year at 97, was relocated from the Colorado Springs Airport t...