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It's before dawn and retired Col. Shawn Daniel has already been up for hours, making preparations to lead his next incursion. He checks his firearm, counts his ordnance and, stepping out into the frigid early-morning air, pulls his cover low and his gaiter up. Little can be seen of the career warrior but a splinter of skin across the eyes.
Calhoun County resident Kermit Bell is a West Point graduate and a retired Lt. Col from the US Army. Bell was drafted for WWII in 1946 as he attended Calhou
The NFL Draft Days of yesteryear were a little bit different. There were no live television broadcasts. The picks weren't instantly evaluated. No, when Jim Richards was chosen by the Jets in 1968, the news came by way of a hallway telephone in his Virginia Tech dormitory. "I came back from class, and a guy on the hall telephone said, 'Hey Jim, you've got a call here. Some guy named Ewbanks.' I said, 'Oh, let me take that call,'" Richards laughed. "When I picked up the phone to talk to Weeb, he said, 'Hey Jim, we've drafted you and want you to come play with us.' We talked about the bonus and ...