Excerpt: Inside the Gwangju Uprising, a Key Moment for South Korean Democracy
<p><em>Government forces sprung into action to violently suppress a pro-democracy protest of students and workers in Gwangju, South Korea on May 18, 1980. </em></p>
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<p><em>Government forces sprung into action to violently suppress a pro-democracy protest of students and workers in Gwangju, South Korea on May 18, 1980. </em></p>
North Brunswick resident Honorably Discharged from U.S. Army, Reserves receives street sign in his honor North Brunswick continued its secondary street sign designation for wartime veterans by honoring Ernest Hezekiah Wilson Jr. on May 17. According to a proclamation read in his honor, Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 9, 1947, the eldest of six siblings. He comes from a long line of preachers and deacons. He moved to Brooklyn, New York, then the Bronx, New York, finally before settling in North Brunswick. Wilson served in the U.S. Army from August 1966 to August 1969. He was draf...