In the land of their loss
For these Gold Star moms, a trip to Iraq was one they had to make.
OCTOBER 11, 2010 7:27 a.m. 
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Her son Evan wrote it when he was 16.
The sermon was her memorial to him, a soldier killed by a roadside explosion in Mosul two years ago, 200 miles from the serenity of Lake Dukan in Iraqi Kurdistan. Continue reading...
‘I left with my head held high’
A combat veteran returns home
DECEMBER 21, 2011 1:34 p.m. (0)
The 36-year-old former gunnery sergeant had enough during the seemingly constant firefights in a remote river valley in the western section of that war-torn land in 2010 and 2011. He left the Corps in April of this year.
“When the Afghan tour was over I figured it was time to get out,” he said of leaving the Corps just four years from retirement with full benefits. “I’d done everything I wanted to do (platoon leader, sniper team leader, terrorism interdiction covert work in South America). I left with my head held high.” Continue reading...
Spartanburg WWII vet remembers his encounter with the Pope
Two Spartanburg artillerymen wandered into the Vatican in 1944 and became the first allied troops to meet Pope Pius XII after Rome fell
MAY 31, 2012 11:08 a.m. (0)
Two World War II artillerymen from Spartanburg were the first allied troops to meet with Pope Pius XII after German and Italian troops abandoned the city in face of Gen. Mark Clark’s powerful assault on June 4, 1944.
The encounter came quite by accident 68 years ago, when retired Spartanburg businessman J.D. Edwards and his driver, Gus Cantrell, were scouting for a place to site their massive 240-millimeter howitzers. Continue reading...
The Nashville Connection aids vets through music
Country star Darryl Worley caps off four days of events throughout Greenville
JUNE 21, 2012 10:15 a.m. (2)
Getting Darryl Worley to come to Greenville to headline the second annual Nashville Connection Heroes Salute seemed like an obvious idea to Joan Betros.
Betros, executive producer and director of this four-day series of events at various venues in Greenville, first met the country star on a USO tour while her husband was stationed in Iraq with the Army Reserve. Continue reading...
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