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LAKE SENECA – He's a throwback.                        The son of a career Army infantry officer, Albert James "Jim" Diehl III graduated high school in Germany; played Rugby and started jumping out of airplanes while a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy; and has set his muddy boots in 78 countries. Recently retired and approaching his 69th birthday, two-thirds of Jim's 51 years in military and federal service were spent in and around the special operations environment and those ubiquitous "three-letter agencies," where his jersey number was often called for the thorniest...

"I was a movieholic," admitted Tucker, whose first deployment was under the tactical, speed-infused command of future Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lt. Col. Al Gray, operating from the amphibious warship, USS Inchon. "Growing up in Woodruff, South Carolina, it was Saturday matinees with Jeff Chandler in Merrill's Marauders, Van Heflin in Battle Cry, John Wayne in Flying Leathernecks and Jack Webb in The D.I.," he said. After 22 years in the Corps that included a climb from private to the NCO ranks and, finally, the "railroad tracks" he earned as a brand new captain, the Desert Storm vet ret...

1 of 3 The Rev. John Eubanks, a pastor of Friendship Church, gestures as he prays for the Church during Thursday's National Day of Prayer observance on the Colquitt County Courthouse Square. Kevin C. Hall/The Moultrie Observer John Norman, owner of Prospex Promotions, prays for local businesses during Thursday's National Day of Prayer observance on the Colquitt County Courthouse Square. Kevin C. Hall/The Moultrie Observer The Rev. Benji Nobles, pastor of Greater Believers Worship Center, prays for law enforcement and first responders during Thursday's National Day of P...

Program #324 (April 25 at 8:00pm) Lionel Hampton was the first jazz vibraphonist and was one of the jazz giants beginning in the mid-'30s. He has achieved the difficult feat of being musically open-minded (even recording "Giant Steps") without changing his basic swing style. Hamp started out as a drummer, playing with the Chicago Defender Newsboys' Band as a youth. His original idol was Jimmy Bertrand, a '20s drummer who occasionally played xylophone. Hampton played on the West Coast with such groups as Curtis Mosby's Blue Blowers, Reb Spikes, and Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders (with whom h...

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