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SPOKANE, Wash. – For the second straight year, the Washington State Fallen Heroes Project held a Memorial Day ‘Boots on the Ground’ tribute outside the Illuminating Courage Memorial behind the
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Servicemembers who died in the line of duty were honored Monday at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.
Korean War memorial dedicated in Spokane Ceremony held on 71st anniversary of U.S. joining conflict By Kip Hill, The Spokesman-Review Published: June 28, 2021, 6:32pm Share: Spokane — Temperatures near the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena climbed to near 100 on Sunday afternoon, but you couldn’t get 93-year-old Dick Kirkendall to take off his sweatshirt. “This sweatshirt was a Father’s Day present from my two daughters,” a beaming Kirkendall told a group of visitors to Sunday’s dedication of a Korean War memorial in Spokane. Screen-printed on the front was an image o...
× As the U.S. tries to wind down two decades of war in Afghanistan, the conflict has already left lasting marks on Spokane By Orion Donovan-Smith, The Spokesman-Review Published: January 10, 2021, 10:00am Share: SPOKANE — It was getting close to Christmas 2001 when 33-year-old Air Force Capt. Brian Newberry got a call at Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina. At first it seemed like a normal call. The United States and its allies had invaded Afghanistan two months earlier in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and C-17 Globemaster pilots like Newberry, who would go...