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Bernard Benedict James sat his young children down in the family living room decades ago in their La Mirada home, where he’d written a set of math equations on a blackboard. The Harvard-educated aerospace engineer was working for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the time and wanted to give his 10 children an impromptu lecture […]
The grave marker for Hiram Honaker and his family — the only U.S. veteran buried on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (Sandy Simison/U.S. Air Force) (Tribune News Service) — Some 134 years after he was buried on what once was a Greene County family farm, one of the nation’s biggest Air Force bases respectfully tends to the grave of U.S. Army Pvt. Hiram […]
As a young man in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dabney Jr. wanted to blaze a path that could set his family up for a better life. So two weeks after high school graduation in 1998, at age 18, he joined the U.S. Army. During nine years of service that included two tours in Iraq, Dabney was […]
Hampton University has named alumnus and U.S. Army retired Lt. Gen. Darrell K. Williams, a 1983 graduate of Hampton University, as the institution’s next president. Williams met his wife, Myra, while attending Hampton. She also graduated from the university in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree. The couple, married in 1987, will be the first president […]
Two suspects were charged with murder and hate crimes in the killing of a Black Navy veteran and youth pastor at a California gas station last week, authorities said Friday. Prosecutors in San Joaquin County, south of Sacramento, accuse Jeremy Wayne Jones, 49, and Christina Lyn Garner, 42, of first-degree murder in the March 15 […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The last time the United States won a medal in the sport of Nordic Combined was in 2010. If the U.S. is going to do it again in 2022, they will likely be led by three-time Olympian Taylor Fletcher. “Going to your first Olympics is a dream come true. It’s something […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A couple from Winchester, Kentucky, has spent their lives protecting their community and country. Now they are asking for help. According to a report by LEX 18, Carol Charles is a bus monitor for Clark County Schools. Her husband, Steve, is a U.S. Army veteran now on dialysis three times a […]
The Green Bay Packers and WPS Health Solutions paid special tribute to U.S. Army veteran Gauge Hunter during Sunday’s game against Seattle for ‘Operation Fan Mail.’ Operation Fan Mail, the program that recognizes military families and veterans at each Packers home game, is marking its 15th season in 2021. Hunter, who was born in California […]
Earlier this year, Leidos, a leading information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services company, announced that 37 employees were honored at the 35th Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) STEM Conference. The 2021 class of awardees is the largest in Leidos history. More recently, Leidos announced that retired Lieutenant General Darrell Williams, […]