By Linda F. Hersey FAIRBANKS, ALASKA — Stephanie Allen counted down the days, then hours, until she would shutter forever the only retail shop in Fairbanks dedicated exclusively to cold-pressed juices made to order. Go Wild! Juicery was always something of a misfit on outer Lathrop Street, wedged between an ax-throwing club and the stripped-down […]
By Linda F. Hersey WASHINGTON — Just before entering the Army, 19-year-old James N. Rollins asked his high school girlfriend to marry him. His mom paid for the ring. More boy than man, Rollins was drafted in 1967, leaving his Maryland home for the first time for training at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Gordon,
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By Linda F. Hersey WASHINGTON — For veteran J. Kimo Williams, a composer and musician, the military and war are themes that he revisits in a career that spans nearly 50 years — from his tour in Vietnam to his research on discrimination Black veterans experienced after World War I. “I kept a notebook filled
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By Linda F. Hersey WASHINGTON — Kenneth Landry was deployed in Kuwait as an air-traffic controller with Air Force special operations in 2014 when an ATV rollover knocked him unconscious and pinned him underneath the vehicle. Landry was pulled out by fellow service members and airlifted to Germany, where he was hospitalized in intensive care
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