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Remembering Ernie Pyle in a time of mistrust
By Dennis Anderson, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker The other day I received one of those compliments that makes a reporter ...
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The Big War, my Dad and Donna Reed
By DENNIS ANDERSON, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker When I think about it, it feels like my family life in the Army and the...
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Chuck Yeager Flew From Here to Eternity
By DENNIS ANDERSON, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker Army Vet, Marine Dad, Iraq Embed One of my aerospace historian friends noted...
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Jimmy Stewart's PTSD; 'It's a Wonderful Life'
By DENNIS ANDERSON, LCSW Army Vet, Marine Dad, Iraq Embed Jimmy Stewart awarded French Croix de Guerre near end of World War II. He also...
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Death Takes No 2020 Holiday
By DENNIS ANDERSON, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker Army Vet, Marine Dad, Iraq Embed The first night my infant son came home from...
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A Field of Healing and Honor
On Sunday, with a fraught election threatening to overwhelm, a man in a blue business suit mounted the lectern and addressed the crowd,...
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Remembering Bob Evans, 101st Airborne, Class of ’69
We lost Bob Evans last week. A friend said he went quickly, and that it was not unexpected. Also, “He had been working on it for a...
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Saving Private Ryan
MOVIE According to History.com, Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film Saving Private Ryan may include some of the most horrific fighting scenes...
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D-Day
BOOK D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher's Weekly says: "Ambrose's account of the...
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A 95th birthday for WWII ‘Screaming Eagles’ veteran
CALIFORNIA CITY — Get to 95, and pretty soon you are looking at a century. So, it was nearly a century ago, Feb. 3, 1923, that Henry...
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Valley veteran escaped during Battle of the Bulge
Roy Rogel (left) and Adolph Martinez served in the 17th Airborne during World War II. Martinez, now 96, is a Quartz Hill resident who...
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Our Tie to the Red Tails
Have you heard about that football team in Washington D.C., the one they are going to change from the Redskins name after decades of...
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The 1498th reunites 15 years after Iraq War heroics
Sunday was Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that celebrates an unlikely victory in Mexico against the forces of France, around the time the...
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Remembering What We're Fighting For
Two years ago, my son and I were at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Va. It was right around his 33rd birthday and we were attending a...
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