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Robert "Bob" Brown has died aged 100 - Credit: ARCHANT A war veteran, who narrowly avoided being caught up in a notorious Nazi massacre, has died aged 100. Robert “Bob” Brown, of Norwich, has been described by his family as “generous, forgiving, and sociable”.  Mr Brown was born in Newton Flotman, south of the city, on July 15, 1920, where he spent his youth.  From the age of seven, he would sit and listen to his father talking about his time during the First World War. This eventually sparked his ambition to become a soldier. However, at the age of 11 he had to wear...

Coastal Review Online is featuring the research, findings and commentary of author Kevin Duffus . First of three parts It was not Shakespeare but Pythagoras who likely first imagined the world as a stage “whereon many play their parts.” No more often am I reminded of this proverb than when I am traveling across the inlet between Hatteras and Ocracoke islands — one of many grand stages of North Carolina’s maritime history. The North Carolina Department of Transportation ferry Croatoan gets underway from Hatteras Island to Ocracoke. Photo: Mark Hibbs The ferry I am on meanders its way a...

NanoStockk/iStock/Getty Images Plus During the course of this “pandemic” and the self-inflicted crisis it has created, fewer words have received more of a workout than the word “hero.” Coming from a pre-9/11 generation, heroism has a certain meaning to me. This is what I think of when I think of heroism: On Feb. 3, 1943, the U.S.A.T. Dorchester carrying 902 service men, merchant seamen and civilian workers was sunk in the cold Atlantic. Through the pandemonium, according to those present, four Army chaplains brought hope in despair and light in darkness. Those chaplains were Lt. Georg...