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One week from today will be the 77th anniversary of the D-Day invasion when the Allies came ashore at Normandy in 1944.

DALLAS — Graduation is when a good time should be enjoyed by all. For the most part, that is the way it is with families with whom most of us are familiar. Seeing young kids about to flap their wings and leave the nest with anticipation that the next four years will be a defining time in their lives, you wish them Godspeed and say a prayer that good tidings lay ahead for them. After all, they someday will hold the world’s future in their hands. From this generation, there is the reality they will need to manage the vicissitudes of government, social justice, sexuality, homelessness, envi...

Waking up early is something that began on the farm yesteryear, but today when my schedule would allow for a later wake-up call, my system is not compatible. Many times I just go on and start my day, but there are those days when I turn on the TV and find something worthwhile to allow for segueing into a leisurely sojourn to daybreak. Recently, there was a documentary about the heavy water Hitler needed for his scientists to develop an atomic bomb. The daring raid in Norway to destroy the plant where heavy water was being produced was successful. Hollywood made a spine-tingling movie that ...

Enjoying life was Gordon Varnedoe's modus operandi, whether that involved cheering on the Bulldogs or dressing up as Batman or Gen. James Oglethorpe

EATONTON — Here in the heart of Georgia’s Piedmont, Native American history has been said to date back as much as 3,000 years — long before the first dairy farm came about in Putnam County, and long before Joel Chandler Harris began writing folk tales which were popular in his day, but not so much anymore. Although it would probably be politically incorrect in these times to create an Uncle Remus narrating stories, the lessons and logic of those tales remain celebrated and useful for their insightfulness. Our world is abundantly populated with folk slugging the tar baby today. Harris w...