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BURLINGTON — The Salvation Army of Alamance County hosted its second annual "Behind the Red Shield" appreciation dinner on Aug. 4 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Church, Burlington.
The breadth of his bribe-taking was stunning and his high-life antics were gauche. The former Top Gun fighter ace at times appeared like an aging playboy stuck in the 1970s on his party-pad boat at the Capital Yacht Club, and he had a habit of giving signed photographs of his old self in a Navy flight suit to total strangers. Then-President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour pardon of the former congressman — announced early Wednesday morning along with more than 140 others — won’t change Cunningham’s history. He has admitted his crimes and already served the time. It’s also a “conditiona...