Linda F. Hersey

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,

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

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

By Linda F. Hersey Inside Defense/Inside Washington Publishers NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — A modernized approach to integrated fighting is transforming strategies and the mindset for future maritime combat operations, according to a panel of Navy and Marine Corps leaders speaking Tuesday at the Sea-Air-Space conference. Fighting multiple fleets simultaneously is among the challenges that military

By Linda F. Hersey Inside Defense/Inside Washington Publishers NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — “Peace is war without bloodshed for China” is how Naval War College Professor James Holmes described that country’s position toward rules-based order and international law that hold sway in the South China Sea and across the Indo-Pacific. “Control is how you win,” Holmes

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department has identified 400 former service members who experienced “possible or probable” exposures to chemical weapons during the Iraq War with the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct clinical evaluations and offer consultations and treatment, according to VA officials. Called VET-HOME, the newly formed VA veterans exposure team for “health outcomes

WASHINGTON — Col. Doug Collins attended seminary school, worked as a pastor at a small-town church and served as a chaplain in the Navy and Air Force Reserve. But the attorney also served four terms as a Republican House lawmaker from Georgia and was one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most ardent defenders in 2020 during

In September 2021, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., where Biden pledged support for the nation’s sovereignty amid Russian threats. On Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, Biden accused Russia of launching an invasion against Ukraine. Speaking to the Alaska Legislature Tuesday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski described her alarm over Russia’s aggression

AMERICANS ON AMERICA: WHAT MY COUNTRY MEANS TO ME By Linda F. Hersey US Resist News Americans on America is a USRESIST NEWS investigative report  series in which we interview  ordinary American on the values  they believe their country stands for, and what their country needs to do to  live up to those values. Jaime