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A Flag That’s Still Worth Dying For by Michael Reagan, July 1, 2021 Making Sense by Michael Reagan When hammer-thrower Gwen Berry turned her back on the American flag at the Olympic Trials last weekend, it made me think of Sergeant William Carney. Berry probably doesn’t know who Carney was. Neither, I bet, do the Black Lives Matter activists who spent last summer blindly tearing down statues of historical figures to protest the racist origins of America and the systemic racism they claim exists today. Thanks to the lousy way history is taught in our schools, most Americans – of every co...

by Bill Batson On May, 1, 1865, three weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House, ending the Civil War, the first Memorial Day was observed. Recently liberated enslaved Africans and Colored troops held the commemoration in Charleston, South Carolina to consecrate a new and proper burial site for 250 Confederate prisoners who died from exposure and disease. A Memorial Day service that will be held in West Nyack on May 31, 2021 at 10:00am at Mount Moor Cemetery provides a direct connection to the origins of the solemn holiday. One of the ten veterans, whose...

Greensboro Police Department mourns the loss of Sergeant William White Sergeant William White's wife Melissa said her husband passed away after fighting a more than two year battle with cancer. Author: Brian Bennett Updated: 10:53 PM EST February 16, 2021 GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Greensboro Police Department (GPD) is mourning the loss of one of their own, Sergeant William White, 45.   White's wife Melissa said her husband passed away after fighting a more than two-year battle with cancer.   William leaves behind two children. A son that is 8 and a daughter th...

Governor Northam announces 2nd annual Black History Month Historical Marker Contest Virginia Department of Historic Resources, 2020 br Camilla Williams, operatic soprano, grew up in Danville. In 1946 she became the first African American woman to secure a contract with a major U.S. opera company, making her debut in Madama Butterfly with the New York City Center Opera. Williams starred in Columbia Records’ recording of Porgy and Bess (1951), performed with the Vienna State Opera and other prominent companies, toured internationally as a soloist, and served as a cultural ambassador for t...

Firestorm Hell: A Gunner Describes the Superfortress Raid on Tokyo William Carter, a Gunner aboard a U.S. B-29 bomber, lived through harrowing times during missions against the Japanese. Here's What You Need to Know: The Tokyo fire raid marked the beginning of what became known as the fire blitz. When the Boeing B-29 Superfortress crews poured out of the briefing at North Field, Tinian, on the afternoon of March 9, 1945, they were disgruntled. Some were angry. Sergeant William J. “Reb” Carter, the left blister gunner on a B-29, remembered four words: “Heavy losses are anticipated….�...