The Bartlesville Area History Museum received a unique remembrance for its permanent gallery from graduates of a local College-High School class on Thursday.
The Wildcat class of 1961 typically uses its “flower fund” to send condolences and flowers to classmates who have lost loved ones. But the former students dipped into the savings to fund an exhibit honoring a living hero and fellow graduate, Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Logan Francis.
HOISTING unidentified neighborhood youngster, Thomas W. Sima smiles returning ex-prisoner of war Air Force Lt. Col. he received in hometown POWs Return to Gnnaminson, Alloway Home to Crowd, Home By WAYNE PARTENHEIMER Courier-Post Staff Two former prisoners of war returned to their South Jersey homes in markedly M i JLav
The Confederate flag has been at the center of a heated debate for the last few months. Now another flag is under fire. The POW-MIA flag designed by an Orange Park woman is being called “racist” by one published columnist. The Washington Spectator columnist Rick Perlstein’s piece titled “The Story of
When a CM junior found out his great-grandmother wrote to American POWs in Vietnam, he shared the discovery with Mr. Bradley. West Roxbury, Mass.– As Catholic Memorial School junior Kevin Pumphret held the letter in his hands and read the words of Navy captain Bill Franke, his mind returned to a discussion from his American War in Vietnam course – the experience of prisoners of war.
Summer may be gone for a while, but the glorious, crisp mid-autumn weather that we so often experience in Iowa was in full bloom as we met at the Wakonda Club at noon for our weekly meeting. President Don Flannery welcomed us and called on Rob Hedgepeth for words of
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