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Betsy Palmer, the veteran character actress who achieved lasting, though not necessarily sought-after, fame as the murderous camp cook in the cheesy horror film “Friday the 13th,” passed away in 2015 at age 88.
President Biden commemorated the late Gen.
We are devastated to learn of the death of General Raymond Odierno, US Army, retired. Ray was a giant in military circles—dedicated first and always to
Army Cpl. Robert "Bob" Dunston, whose iconic shoe repair shop on Eustis Street was the stuff of which hometowns are made, was spotlighted in the June 18, 2019 issue; and Leesburg's Sword Heating and Air Conditioning owner Eric Sword, an aviation Leatherneck, grabbed the SALUTE headlines in the edition of Dec. 6, 2020. We introduced you to combat-wounded Marine Sgt. Sebastien Lajeunesse in the April 25, 2020 paper, as the Afghanistan vet continues to grab attention throughout Central Florida with St. Johns Hops, up Umatilla way. And, in the spring of this year, it was our sad but honored ...
Historian Rick Atkinson has become famous as one of our greatest chroniclers of war with his World War II Liberation Trilogy, and he’s off to a strong start to his Revolution Trilogy with the 2019 best seller, “The British Are Coming.” More than a decade before he won the Pulitzer Prize for “An Army at Dawn” (Liberation Trilogy, Book 1), Atkinson caught the attention of military history readers with 1989’s “The Long Gray Line,” a chronicle of 25 years in the life of the West Point Class of 1966. The book captures a shift in military culture. These young officers were born in t...