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AUTHOR’S NOTE: Trouble seemed to find Arlon Elwood “Jackson” Ball — from the time he lost his father to a lightning strike to the intense fighting in which he engaged as a serviceman in World War II, from the death of his younger brother in a traffic accident in 1958 to his own violent death in a North Kenai bar in 1968. But summing up such a life — any life, for that matter — is never easy. There is always, it seems, more to the story. ....
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According to the Minnesota Medal of Honor Memorial Committee, there are 65 living recipients of the nation’s highest military decoration, and historically, 72 Minnesotans have been recognized with the honor. ....
Michigan committee proposes removal of Civil War memorial statue View Comments ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP, Mich. A citizens committee in western Michigan has proposed removing a park statue of a Union soldier and Confederate soldier standing back to back as a slave child kneels between them. The Garden of Honor Memorial Committee presented its suggestion Monday to the Allendale Township board which could vote June 14 on the statue s future. In addition to removing the current statue, the committee also recommended that a replacement statue featuring three Union soldiers one white, one Black and one Native American be erected. One of the three soldiers would be inspired by the likeness of African American solider Ben Jones, a former slave and Ottawa County resident who served in the Union army, said Tumaini Sango, a committee member. ....